[B-Greek] Wallace or Porter?
Elizabeth Kline
kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 30 12:59:34 EDT 2005
CWestf5155 at aol.com wrote:
"I'm intimately acquainted with both works ... But much of what Ben
observes below is a difference in theory."
Dr. Westfall,
How would you compare Porter to Wallace in terms of a code model
framework?
Has Porter incorporated the insights about semantic inference from
Relevance Theory (Diane Blakemore, Robin Carston, Ernst-August Gutt)
into his linguistic framework?
How does this impact his treatment of syntax?
In the traditional framework when one runs across what looks like a
defective (abbreviated) clause structure the analysis proceeds to
describe what is missing. Relevance Theory maximizes the inferential
component in the communication process and it seems to me that this
would have some impact on how we understand abbreviations in syntax.
Elizabeth Kline
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