[B-Greek] technical vocabulary
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jun 16 07:14:17 EDT 2007
My appreciation (and, I trust, that of many other B-Greekers) for
James Ernest's query and for all these endeavors to throw open the
doors and illuminate the murky corners of what have seemed (to me, at
least) to be long-trailing corridors of the Discourse-Critical wing
of what I've often termed the Tower of Babel termed Linguistics,
where theorists ponder and speak to or at each other in a great
variety of unknown tongues about misty matters.
Carl W. Conrad
On Jun 16, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Steve Runge wrote:
> 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 (Unpublished doctoral dissertation from the University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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