TY - JOUR
TI - The Quasi-Linguistic Structure of Iyengar Yoga Āsana Practice. An Analysis from the Perspective of Cognitive Grammar
AU - Ciołkosz, Matylda
TI - The Quasi-Linguistic Structure of Iyengar Yoga Āsana Practice. An Analysis from the Perspective of Cognitive Grammar
AB - 
	The objective of the paper is to draw attention to the possible relevance of the categories of cognitive linguistics for the structural analysis of ritual. Taking the Iyengar Yoga āsana practice as an example, the author proposes to treat it as a quasi-linguistic phenomenon and analyses the symbolic structure of its elements (single āsanāni). The tools applied in this pursuit are the basic categories of Langacker’s cognitive grammar. By pointing to the key tenets of cognitive linguistics, including the claim concerning the symbolic (and, thus, semantic) nature of grammar, the author attempts to rephrase Staal’s thesis concerning the meaninglessness of ritual to accommodate it to the cognitive (or, more precisely, enactive) paradigm. She suggests a possible relationship between the schematic symbolic nature of ritual and the specific symbolic nature of doctrine. After some of the most salient linguistic phenomena within Iyengar Yoga āsana practice are described, their coherence with certain doctrinal interpretations is briefly discussed.
VL - 2014
IS - Tom 47, Numer 4
PY - 2014
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 263
EP - 273
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.14.019.3120
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/the-quasi-linguistic-structure-of-iyengar-yoga-asana-practice-an-analysis-from-the-perspective-of-cognitive-grammar
KW - Iyengar
KW - modern postural yoga
KW - āsana
KW - enactivism
KW - cognitive grammar
KW - ritual ; Iyengar
KW - nowoczesna joga posturalna
KW - asana
KW - enaktywizm
KW - gramatyka kognitywna
KW - rytuał