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Figurative language and persuasion in CPG sermons: The Example of a Gĩkũyũ televangelist by Bernard G. Njuguna; Helga Schröder is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Figurative language and persuasion in CPG sermons: The Example of a Gĩkũyũ televangelist about?
As a part of religious discourse, Christian sermons are a "...persuasive discourse par excellence" (Adams 2019:7). This is more pronounced in the Christian Prosperity Gospel (CPG), a system of thought and belief in which preachers 1 attempt to convince audiences to donate to their churches with the expectation that God will reward them with health and wealth. Previous research shows that the use of metaphors and metonymies pervade CPG sermons but an explanation on the mechanisms through which they persuade is rarer. With this in mind and viewing CPG sermons from their persuasive angle; this paper sets out to investigate how metaphors and metonymies are used for persuasion purposes in televised sermons presented in the Gĩkũyũ language 2 . The data is drawn from authentic televised sermons. The findings indicate that metaphors and metonymies engender persuasion in sermons by affecting the perceived altruism and trustworthiness of a speaker in a sermon. This is done by means of manipulating various forms of distance suggested in the Media Proximization Approach (Kopytowska 2015(Kopytowska , 2022)). Metaphor is found to affect the axiological, epistemic, temporal and emotional distance
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- Author
- Bernard G. Njuguna; Helga Schröder
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)