The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Ritual and language
6. To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system 31
7. Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras 57
8. Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft 68
9. The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification 87
10. Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches 114
11. Part II: Ideologies of religious language
12. Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity 139
13. The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought 158
14. Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language 193
15. Ineffability and music in early Christian theology 215
16. The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England 243
17. The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style 276
18. The place of language in discursive studies of religion 304
19. Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn
20. Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments 327
21. The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing 349
22. Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction 382
23. The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer 404
24. “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio 418
25. Contributors 442
26. Index 449