[B-Greek] Rom 8:4, "That which is impossible to the law"

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 28 16:38:03 EDT 2009


On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> A contextualizer a.k.a discourse ligament is a semantically
> significant constituent (i.e., not a conjunction) used between
> predications in an argument or narrative which serves to semantically
> "tie things together".

The word "context" was used here as it has been traditionally used in  
the study of the bible, e.g. "context, context, context ..." in a  
recent post by George Somsel. This is quite different than how the  
term has been used in linguistics where context refers to the social,  
cultural, physical setting for the discourse. In writing my previous  
comments, the focus was on the semantic coherence of the text.

If this bothers the linguists, then we can use a different term. I am  
not at all concerned about what term we use.

Elizabeth Kline







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