LaReina Hingson

LaReina Hingson is a visiting faculty member in Linguistics at BYU where she works on discourse analysis in religion, law, and sign language linguistics. She has lived in ten different states, visited three different continents, and served in three different temples. A retired competitive dancer, she continues to be physically active by teaching aerial arts.

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The Diachronic Usage of Exclamation Marks across the Major Book of Mormon Editions

by Scott L. Howell, Brooke Anderson, LaReina Hingson, Lanna McRae, Jesse Vincent, Brandon Torruella | undefined 53 | 11-04-2022

Abstract: The usage of the exclamation mark has changed over time but continues to serve as an important textual interpretation aid. Punctuation itself has not been a permanent fixture in English, rather it was slowly introduced to English documents with changing standard usages after the invention of the printing press. Here we highlight the use […]

The Body As the Temple of God

by LaReina Hingson | undefined 52 | 07-29-2022

Abstract: Metaphors occur when there is a contradiction in the senses of the words used that cause the text to be interpreted non-literally, as Paul Ricoeur has noted. The Apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthians describing the body as a temple has been taken to be one such scriptural metaphor: “Know ye not that ye are the […]

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