NEO-MARXISM, LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
Giovanni B. Bazzana
ABSTRACT
This essay introduces the discipline of linguistic anthropology and, more specifically, the notion of language ideologies, arguing that it might be put to fruitful use in the study of New Testament texts. Linguistic anthropologists, working on a notion of “ideology” of clear neo-Marxist ascendency, have elaborated a very effective set of tools for the analysis of language as a social practice that both re-inscribes socio-political structures and shapes them through its creative impulses. New Testament scholars, who are bound to deal with texts that are detached from their almost irretrievable original contexts, can benefit from the help of linguistic anthropology in delineating the socio-political profiles and agendas of the writings they are working on.
KEYWORDS
linguistic anthropology, New Testament, Marxism, Lord’s Prayer
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