[B-Greek] technical vocabulary
Steve Runge
srunge at logos.com
Sat Jun 16 06:55:22 EDT 2007
James,
Here is a quick overview of the resources that are available in the area of information structure and discourse analysis. Only some relate specifically to Greek.
For a good introduction to discourse issues and their relevance for exegesis, see
Callow, Kathleen.
1974 Discourse Considerations in Translating the Word of God. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
Levinsohn, Stephen H.
2006 "The Relevance of Greek Discourse Studies to Exegesis." Journal of Translation, Volume 2, Number 2. It is available online at http://www.sil.org:8090/siljot/index.html;jsessionid=3C43354DC7C4569E7706274CCA4014C5
2001. "Erchomai and Poreuomai in Luke-Acts: Two Orientation Strategies." Notes on Translation 15.3:13-30.
For an overview of issues and concepts relating to discourse analysis, see
Dooley, Robert A. and Stephen H. Levinsohn
2001 Analyzing discourse: A manual of basic concepts. Dallas: SIL International.
Levinsohn, S. H. 2006. Self-Instruction Materials on Narrative Discourse Analysis. Online at http://mail.jaars.org/~bt/narr.zip. The link is not currently working.
For a good overview of the various approaches to information structure, see the literature review of Sebatian Floor "From Information Structure, Topic and Focus, to Theme in Biblical Hebrew Narrative." (Unpublished doctoral dissertation from the University of Stellenbosch, 2004.) This used to be available on the web, but I suspect is has been submitted for publication.
For a detailed application of this model to the Greek New Testament, see
Levinsohn, Stephen H. 2000a. Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek (2nd ed.) Dallas: SIL International.
For a practical application of a topic/comment framework to Biblical Hebrew
Bailey, Nicholas A., and Stephen H. Levinsohn
1992 "The function of preverbal elements in independent clauses in the Hebrew narrative of Genesis." Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics 5:179-207.
Bandstra, Barry
1992 "Word Order and Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: Syntactic Observations on Genesis 22 from a Discourse Perspective." In Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew, edited by Walter R. Bodine. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pp. 109-124.
Buth, Randall
1999 "Word Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative-Functional Approach." In The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Approaches, edited by Cynthia L. Miller. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, pp. 79-108.
1995 "Functional Grammar, Hebrew and Aramaic: An Integrated, Textlinguistic Approach to Syntax." In Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What It Is and What It Offers, edited by Walter R. Bodine. Atlanta: Scholars Press, pp. 77-102.
1992 "Topic and Focus in Hebrew Poetry-Psalm 51." In Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre, edited by Shin Ja J. Hwang and William R. Merrifield. Dallas: SIL and University of Texas at Arlington, pp. 83-96.
Heimerdinger, Jean-Marc
1999 Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
For a complete information structure framework, I would recommend
Lambrecht, K.
1996. Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
found at http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=GhrWzz3mKOEC&oi=fnd&pg=RA1-PR13&dq=From+information+structure,+topic+&ots=qBKWkmYTFP&sig=PM9-4mVFeyRVWJWilJ0Vg1dWwWA
Happy reading,
Steve
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