Means of Increasing Credibility in Religious Discourse – Credibility Boosters

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Niagara Falls, 2013
2013
Engelska.
Ingår i: Language and Communication Quarterly. - Niagara Falls. - 2168-7633 .- 2168-7641. ; 2:4, s. 230-241

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The paper looks into discursive practices of increasing credibility of a message and its source deployed in religious discourse for the purpose of boosting its persuasive potential. It is based on author’s research and analysis of a corpus of religious texts and illustrates the use of credibility boosters by presenting examples selected from sources of several denominations and religious movements (Christians, Latter-Day Saints, Jehova’s Witnesses, United Christian Action, etc.). Besides, it statistically maps the distribution of credibility boosters across four samples used by Judaism and Christianity, Church of Latter-Day Saints, Heaven’s Gate, and Church of Scientology. It also points out recent trends in some of the persuasive mechanisms deployed to induce a change of individual’s opinion and/or behavior.

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