“I’m Praising God in the Language that He Loves”: Language Use in Religious Discourse

Religion has been a key factor in the linguistic inquiry. Due to its significance social life, it came be an intertwined relationship with language. Much of research focused on this institutionalized settings such as schools, mosques and churches. Yet, study interaction between language use religion less or non-institutional not attracted much attention. This responds need by exploring Arabic within English-language Friday sermon address multilingual religious community at on-campus Muslim prayer site New Zealand. Drawing upon data from semi-structured interviews 10 volunteer presenters, identifies various motivations functions using sermons presenters’ perspectives. The overall conclusion is that goes beyond communicative aspect