American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire

A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820-1898

von Hami Inan Gümüs

260 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Ottoman Empire between 1820-1898. It explores the conceptual metaphor networks inherent to the official missionary discourse. The explication of these networks uncovers how the missionaries defined and depicted themselves and what they encountered. Being a synthesis of literary studies, linguistics, cultural history, and religious studies the work analyzes the missionary narrative in its historical context by applying literary, narratological, and linguistic tools.

• Reihe: Histoire
• ISBN: 9783837638080
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2017
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript