Your lords, not mine
Buddhist–Christian encounter and the language of directive in the ‘Kitchanukit’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20253347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bhasrvarin Iamsa-ard (Walailak University), Thanapas Dejpawuttikul (0000-0003-3655-8113, Walailak University, corresponding author), Kosit Tiptiempong (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cogent Arts and Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2331-1983 • E-ISSN: 2331-1983 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23311983.2024.2361600 |
| OpenAlex | W4399357604 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article revisits the interpretation of the most crucial text in the history of scientific knowledge in Thai society: Nangsue Sadaeng Kitchanukit (A Book Explaining Various Things, 1867). Dominated by Thai historians for over four decades, the ‘Kitchanukit’, authored by Chaophraya Thiphakorawong, has been fundamentally explained not only as an early phase of Siamese elites’ reaction to Western challenges by portraying the encounter between Theravada Buddhist and Christian missionaries, but also the advent of science communication in the country. To redirect the readers’ consideration of the linguistic aspect of the text, the researchers argue that, through the method of critical discourse analysis, especially focusing on the style of speech act and conceptual metaphor in ‘Kitchanukit’, readers can gain a better understanding of Thiphakorawong’s language strategy which the researchers refer to as double demarcation. Significantly, it was employed by the author as a persuasive and hedging tactic in the Buddhist–Christian dialogue on the issue of faith and knowledge
Aesthetics · Buddhism · Directive · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Computer Science · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Philosophy
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Locations of Buddhism
Critical discourse analysis
The course of true loyalists never did run smooth
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
A Post-Colonial View of the East and the West
Buddhist Apologetics and a Genealogy of Comparative Religion in Siam
Imperialism, Buddhism and Islam in Siam
The origins of scientific Buddhism in nineteenth-century Thai intellectual thought
Theravāda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity
Buddhist Cosmography in Thai History, with Special Reference to Nineteenth-Century Culture Change
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |