{"id":"https://openalex.org/W211765869","doi":null,"title":"Audience Perception of Synonyms from the Pulpit: A Case among Six Church Ancillary Groups in Madina","display_name":"Audience Perception of Synonyms from the Pulpit: A Case among Six Church Ancillary Groups in Madina","publication_year":2015,"publication_date":"2015-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W211765869","mag":"211765869"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.834.7837","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.834.7837","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.cls.20150103.12.pdf","raw_type":"text"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5082816333","display_name":"Dennis Soku","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210143128","display_name":"Wisconsin International University College","ror":"https://ror.org/03xe86v46","country_code":"GH","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210143128"]}],"countries":["GH"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Dennis Soku","raw_affiliation_strings":["Wisconsin International University College"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Wisconsin International University College","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210143128"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5141486525","display_name":"M. O. Adekunle","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"M O Adekunle","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.00230305,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12119","display_name":"Linguistics and Discourse Analysis","score":0.5435000061988831,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3310","display_name":"Linguistics and Language"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12119","display_name":"Linguistics and Discourse Analysis","score":0.5435000061988831,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3310","display_name":"Linguistics and Language"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13072","display_name":"Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education","score":0.1500999927520752,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1212","display_name":"Religious studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12373","display_name":"Linguistic research and analysis","score":0.1103999987244606,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1203","display_name":"Language and Linguistics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/synonyms","display_name":"synonyms","score":0.8930000066757202},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/preaching","display_name":"preaching","score":0.48500001430511475},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/audience-perception","display_name":"audience perception","score":0.6140000224113464},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/church-members","display_name":"church members","score":0.5049999952316284},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/christian-ministers","display_name":"Christian ministers","score":0.6019999980926514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/semantic-change","display_name":"semantic change","score":0.4410000145435333},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pentecostal-churches","display_name":"Pentecostal churches","score":0.7979999780654907},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/eastern-orthodox-church","display_name":"Orthodox Church","score":0.7699999809265137},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/charismatic-churches","display_name":"charismatic churches","score":0.9369999766349792}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776341074","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211775","display_name":"Pulpit","level":2,"score":0.7510949373245239},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C32772713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118157","display_name":"Charisma","level":2,"score":0.7107796669006348},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780876879","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3054749","display_name":"Meaning (existential)","level":2,"score":0.6728298664093018},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C26760741","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160402","display_name":"Perception","level":2,"score":0.5933175086975098},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778692574","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5410500","display_name":"Faith","level":2,"score":0.5857670307159424},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173483453","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1040689","display_name":"Synonym (taxonomy)","level":3,"score":0.5619659423828125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.4994075298309326},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C190248442","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q839486","display_name":"Qualitative research","level":2,"score":0.4219139516353607},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.36233657598495483},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77805123","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161272","display_name":"Social psychology","level":1,"score":0.3449499011039734},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.33272337913513184},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.224834144115448},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.21025753021240234},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.19949206709861755},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C27206212","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34178","display_name":"Theology","level":1,"score":0.18942153453826904},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.1605817675590515},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.1596914827823639},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.15860149264335632},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C59822182","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441","display_name":"Botany","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C157369684","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34740","display_name":"Genus","level":2,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.834.7837","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.834.7837","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.cls.20150103.12.pdf","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.848.4053","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.848.4053","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://works.bepress.com/bahram_kazemian/19/download/","raw_type":"text"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":19,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W62836030","https://openalex.org/W592528677","https://openalex.org/W606145268","https://openalex.org/W1483543676","https://openalex.org/W1566738679","https://openalex.org/W1703001658","https://openalex.org/W2016221228","https://openalex.org/W2032783154","https://openalex.org/W2039585592","https://openalex.org/W2062904334","https://openalex.org/W2064384777","https://openalex.org/W2085108029","https://openalex.org/W2092286949","https://openalex.org/W2132530387","https://openalex.org/W2160770043","https://openalex.org/W2164328300","https://openalex.org/W2192867502","https://openalex.org/W2568368152","https://openalex.org/W3141963597"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7219375128","https://openalex.org/W2566061431","https://openalex.org/W2737513654","https://openalex.org/W4319873047","https://openalex.org/W3162824072","https://openalex.org/W3124663231","https://openalex.org/W3112200372","https://openalex.org/W2794053171","https://openalex.org/W2289764315","https://openalex.org/W2315958735"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract:":[0],"This":[1],"work":[2,113],"investigated":[3],"audience":[4,94],"perception":[5,104],"of":[6,19,24,46,73,89,105,137],"messages":[7,20,107],"that":[8,15,71],"contained":[9],"synonyms.":[10],"Some":[11],"church":[12,34,39],"members":[13,35,91],"opined":[14],"synonyms":[16,77],"changed":[17],"meanings":[18],"intended":[21],"by":[22,135],"Ministers":[23,136],"the":[25,87,90,93,106,110,122,130,138],"Christian":[26,139],"religion.":[27],"The":[28,48,112],"study":[29],"was":[30,63,69],"conducted":[31],"among":[32,129],"161":[33],"drawn":[36],"from":[37,52,109],"six":[38],"ancillary":[40],"groups":[41,49],"in":[42,58,65,84,92,121],"Madina,":[43],"a":[44],"suburb":[45],"Accra.":[47],"were":[50],"selected":[51],"Orthodox,":[53],"Pentecostal":[54],"and":[55],"Charismatic":[56],"Churches":[57],"Madina.":[59],"A":[60],"qualitative":[61],"approach":[62],"used":[64,75],"this":[66],"study.":[67],"It":[68],"found":[70],"sets":[72],"words":[74],"as":[76,118],"did":[78,96],"not":[79,125],"make":[80],"any":[81,99,127],"much":[82],"difference":[83],"meaning":[85],"to":[86],"majority":[88],"nor":[95],"it":[97],"have":[98],"significant":[100],"effect":[101],"on":[102],"their":[103],"preached":[108],"pulpits.":[111],"concludes":[114],"that,":[115],"so":[116],"long":[117],"synonym":[119],"use":[120,134],"pulpits":[123],"does":[124],"create":[126],"misunderstanding":[128],"audience,":[131],"its":[132],"\u2019":[133],"faith":[140],"will":[141],"continue.":[142]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}