Discoourse cohesion, Zero Anaphora & Maj Text
clayton stirling bartholomew
c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Mon Dec 4 14:47:24 EST 2000
on 12/04/00 10:36 AM, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
> A full noun phrase used to indicate a participant is a means of introducing
> new participants or reintroducing old participants who have not been active
> in the discourse for a significant span or where there are a number of
> participants active and some confusion over person dexis is possible, for
> example in a dialog.
Matt,
There are a number of other reasons that a full noun phrase may be used.
Point of departure is one of them as discussed extensively in *Levinsohn. In
Mark 11:11 and 11:15 the impact of using a full noun phrase hO IHSOUS in
the Maj Text could be understood as a point of departure. If that is the
case then hO IHSOUS of the lack of hO IHSOUS in Mk 11:11/15 is significant
for discourse analysis. A point of departure is a disruption of discourse
coherence.
I think it is quite possible that we are talking about discourse coherence
from slightly different perspectives. I appreciate your comments. Always
good to hear from Roehampton. Not quite sure if this is the same Roehampton
that I am thinking of, you know Stephanie Black, Cindy Westfall, Gustavo
Martin, Stanley . . .
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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*Levinsohn, Stephen Discourse Features of New Testament Greek, 2nd Ed.
SIL 2000.
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