The present study starts from the observation that there are Islamic concepts of Finance, such as ‘Riba’ which is to be explored here, that are totally inaccessible to Western students of Finance. The study introduces a cognitive-functional approach (Halliday 1985) to the analysis of three selected mini-corpora of academic texts on Finance in English. This analysis is aimed to highlight the varying degree(s) of discourse hybridization, this implying a focus on acceptable concepts and textual structures for the prospective Western readers of the texts.
"Conceptual and Discursive Hybridization in the Western-Islamic Discourse of Finance. A case study on Riba."
PROVENZANO, Mariarosaria
2011-01-01
Abstract
The present study starts from the observation that there are Islamic concepts of Finance, such as ‘Riba’ which is to be explored here, that are totally inaccessible to Western students of Finance. The study introduces a cognitive-functional approach (Halliday 1985) to the analysis of three selected mini-corpora of academic texts on Finance in English. This analysis is aimed to highlight the varying degree(s) of discourse hybridization, this implying a focus on acceptable concepts and textual structures for the prospective Western readers of the texts.File in questo prodotto:
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