What is your darkness?
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Hans Malmström
Abstract
This paper is an interdisciplinary (linguistic-homiletic) data-driven analysis of interrogative practices in contemporary preaching, where questions are treated as devices evoking sermon listener engagement. The analysis focuses on the distribution of questions in preaching, the types of questions used, and the location of questions in sermons, all of which are aspects of interrogatives with direct implications for the interpersonal nature of preaching. The investigation concludes by considering preachers’ rationale for using questions, highlighting the multifunctional potential of sermon questions. The findings and the discussions in here will contribute to a more nuanced continued discussion within the homiletics community concerning the “place” of questions in preaching.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Artikel bietet eine interdisziplinäre (linguistisch-homiletische) datengetriebene Analyse interrogativer Methoden in zeitgenössischer Predigt, wobei Fragen zur Einbeziehung der Hörer benutzt werden. Die Analyse konzentriert sich auf die Verteilung von Fragen in der Predigt, die Art der Fragen und ihre Stellung innerhalb der Predigt, was sich direkt auf die zwischenmenschliche Art der Predigt auswirkt. Die Untersuchung bedenkt auch die Begründungen für die Verwendung von Fragen und unterstreicht das multifunktionale Potenzial von Predigtfragen. Die Ergebnisse und Diskussion leisten einen Beitrag zu einer nuancierteren Homiletikdiskussion über den Platz von Fragen innerhalb der Predigt.
Acknowledgements
The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number: LS10–1230: 1) funded the research reported on in this article.
© 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Research Articles
- What is your darkness?
- Burning incense for a focus group discussion: Acquiring a spirituality of liminality for doing liturgical research in an African context from an emic perspective
- Paul Ricoeur and Robert Kegan in Unlikely Dialogue: Towards A “Narrative-Developmental” Approach to Human Identity and Its Value for Christian Religious Education
- Research Report
- 10.1515/ijpt-2014-0011
- Reviews
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