Review

Language of Religion

Muhammad Hasan Naeem*, Nazish Andleeb, Muhammad Umar, Syed Azhar Shabir, Ghulam Shabir and Navid Ahmad Nadvi

Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author's E-mail: naeem_jan31@yahoo.com

Accepted June 05, 2014
 

Abstract

Religion is a set of beliefs of an individual or a set of people. Language of religion is as sacred as any religion is itself. Language of religion is distinctive as well as prior to everyday language. In spite of many distinctive features language of religion is also having some similar features to the other registers. Language of religion is dynamic and complex regarding its function, style and interrelation with other texts. In this article language of religion is stylistically analyzed. Stylistic features like grammatical level, graphological effects, phonological level and semantics discussed on the basis of stylistic analysis.

Keywords: Religion, graphological effects, grammatical level, semantic level, phonological level