Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament Text-Generating Resources (T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek) - Hardcover

Stanley E. Porter; Matthew Brook O'Donnell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 056770985X ISBN 13: 9780567709851

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2024

Synopsis

This volume examines and outlines the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s.

The first part introduces basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches to discourse analysis within New Testament studies. The second part provides a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components – in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony – Porter and O’Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.

About this title

About the Author

Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Matthew Brook O'Donnell is Research Associate in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is an adjunct professor at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Canada, and is author of Corpus Linguistics and the Greek of the New Testament (2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 056770985X
• ISBN 13: 9780567709851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368