Contesting Languages
Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 December 2022
- ISBN 9780197581124
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages266 pages
- Size 159x243x22 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English 272
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Short description:
How did the Apostle Paul navigate the language differences in Corinth? In this book, Ekaputra Tupamahu investigates Corinthian tongue-speech as a site of political struggle. Tupamahu demonstrates that conceptualizing speaking in tongues as ecstatic, unintelligible expressions is an interpretive invention of German romantic-nationalist scholarship. Instead, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of language, Tupamahu finds two forces of language at work in the New Testament: a centripetalizing force of monolingualism, which attempts to force heterogeneous languages into a singular linguistic form, and a countervailing centrifugal force that diverse languages unleash.
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How did the Apostle Paul navigate the language differences in Corinth? In Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church, Ekaputra Tupamahu investigates Corinthian tongue-speech as a site of political struggle. Tupamahu demonstrates that conceptualizing speaking in tongues as ecstatic, unintelligible expressions is an interpretive invention of German romantic-nationalist scholarship. Instead, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of language, Tupamahu finds two forces of language at work in the New Testament: a centripetalizing force of monolingualism, which attempts to force heterogeneous languages into a singular linguistic form, and a countervailing centrifugal force that diverse languages unleash.
The city of Corinth in the Roman period was a multilingual city-a sociolinguistic context that Tupamahu argues should be taken seriously when reading Paul's directives concerning Corinthians "speaking in tongues". Grounding his reading of the texts in the experiences of immigrants who speak minority languages, Tupamahu reads Paul's prohibition against the use of tongues in public gathering as a form of cultural domination. This book offers a competing social imagination, in which tongues as a heteroglossic phenomenon promises a radically hospitable space and a new socio-linguistic vision marked by unending difference.
Deftly combining contemporary theory with Greco-Roman sources, Tupamahu gives us a compelling reading of 1 Corinthians. For Tupamahu, a language—then and now—can gain legitimacy not only by its power to persuade, but even more so through its position of priority over and above other languages. Demonstrating both the language of power and the power of language, Tupamahu's book points out the problem of monolingualism for a truly pluralistic practice.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why on Earth Does Tongue(s) Become Ecstatic Speech?
Chapter 2: Heteroglossia of Corinth in the Roman Period
Chapter 3: Tongue(s) as a Heteroglossic Phenomenon
Chapter 4: The Constructed Linguistic Stratification: Prophecy vs. Tongue(s)
Chapter 5: The Politicization of Language
Chapter 6: Early Responses to Paul
Conclusion
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