Finding meaning in the meaningless : the language of faith surrounding pentecostal glossolalia in Singapore

• Main Author: Mah, Benjamin Ye-Zhong
• Other Authors: Ivan Panović
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Discourse analysis; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Semiotics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Christians do not always agree on what “speaking in tongues” is. Pentecostals believe that it is a heavenly language that humans do not understand. Presbyterians, on the other hand, believe that it must be a natural language foreign to the speaker. In order to find out how these differences in faith...