Signification and Religious Texts: Saussurean and Derridean Perspectives on Islam and Christianity
Abstract
This study examines how vernacular conceptions of Islam and Christianity, through the lens of translation and sacred texts, correspond to Saussurean and Derridean imaginings of the linguistic sign while drawing on the relationship between language as well as experience.
Status
Undergraduate
Department
Linguistics
College
Honors Tutorial College
Campus
Athens
Faculty Mentor
Crawford, Cory
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Signification and Religious Texts: Saussurean and Derridean Perspectives on Islam and Christianity
This study examines how vernacular conceptions of Islam and Christianity, through the lens of translation and sacred texts, correspond to Saussurean and Derridean imaginings of the linguistic sign while drawing on the relationship between language as well as experience.