[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 (Unpublished doctoral dissertation from the University  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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