@book{2017:gms:american_m, title = {American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire}, year = {2017}, note = {This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Ottoman Empire between 1820-1898. It explores the conceptual metaphor networks inherent to the official missionary discourse. The explication of these networks uncovers how the missionaries defined and depicted themselves and what they encountered. Being a synthesis of literary studies, linguistics, cultural history, and religious studies the work analyzes the missionary narrative in its historical context by applying literary, narratological, and linguistic tools.}, edition = {1}, publisher = {transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, series = {Histoire}, volume = {109}, author = {Gümüs, Hami Inan} }