16.2822, Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Mooney

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Date: 27-Sep-2005
From: Palgrave Macmillan < palgravemacmillan at palgrave.com >
Subject: The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Mooney 

	
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:36:30
From: Palgrave Macmillan < palgravemacmillan at palgrave.com >
Subject: The Rhetoric of Religious Cults: Mooney 
 



Title: The Rhetoric of Religious Cults 
Subtitle: Terms of Use and Abuse 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Author: Annabelle Mooney, Cardiff University, UK

Hardback: ISBN: 1403942854 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 45.00


Abstract:

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion
that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members.
First outlining a rhetorical framework, which encompasses contemporary
discourse analysis, the persuasive texts of three movements - Scientology,
Jehovah's Witnesses and Children of God - are analysed in detail and their
discourse compared with other kinds of recruitment literature. Cults'
distinctive negative profile in society is not matched by a linguistic
typology. Indeed, this negative profile seems to rest on the semantics and
application of the term 'cult' itself. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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