[PDF] Postclassical Greek Prepositions And Conceptual Metaphor eBook

Author : William A. Ross
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110777991

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Traditional semantic description of Ancient Greek prepositions has struggled to synthesize the varied and seemingly arbitrary uses into something other than a disparate, sometimes overlapping list of senses. The Cognitive Linguistic approach of prototype theory holds that the meanings of a preposition are better explained as a semantic network of related senses that radially extend from a primary, spatial sense. These radial extensions arise from contextual factors that affect the metaphorical representation of the spatial scene that is profiled. Building upon the Cognitive Linguistic descriptions of Bortone (2009) and Luraghi (2009), linguists, biblical scholars, and Greek lexicographers apply these developments to offer more in-depth descriptions of select postclassical Greek prepositions and consider the exegetical and lexicographical implications of these findings. This volume will be of interest to those studying or researching the Greek of the New Testament seeking more linguistically-informed description of prepositional semantics, particularly with a focus on the exegetical implications of choice among seemingly similar prepositions in Greek and the challenges of potentially mismatched translation into English.

Author : William A. Ross
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110777894

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Traditional semantic description of Ancient Greek prepositions has struggled to synthesize the varied and seemingly arbitrary uses into something other than a disparate, sometimes overlapping list of senses. The Cognitive Linguistic approach of prototype theory holds that the meanings of a preposition are better explained as a semantic network of related senses that radially extend from a primary, spatial sense. These radial extensions arise from contextual factors that affect the metaphorical representation of the spatial scene that is profiled. Building upon the Cognitive Linguistic descriptions of Bortone (2009) and Luraghi (2009), linguists, biblical scholars, and Greek lexicographers apply these developments to offer more in-depth descriptions of select postclassical Greek prepositions and consider the exegetical and lexicographical implications of these findings. This volume will be of interest to those studying or researching the Greek of the New Testament seeking more linguistically-informed description of prepositional semantics, particularly with a focus on the exegetical implications of choice among seemingly similar prepositions in Greek and the challenges of potentially mismatched translation into English.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567709868

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This volume examines and outlines a 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 first introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell first introduce basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches towards it within New Testament studies. They then provide 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.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567710041

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Stanley E. Porter provides descriptions of various important topics in Greek linguistics from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective; an approach that has been foundational to Porter's long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek. Deep insights into Porter's understanding of SFL are displayed throughout, based either upon how he positions SFL in relation to other linguistic models, or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies. Porter reflects on his core approach to the Greek New Testament by exploring subjects such as metaphor, rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and traditional grammar.

Author : William A. Ross
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1805111108

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This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of broad theoretical linguistic frameworks in the field of biblical studies. Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Grammar, generative linguistics, historical linguistics, complexity theory, and computational analysis are each allotted a chapter, outlining the key theoretical commitments of each approach, their major concepts and/or methods, and their important contributions to contemporary study of the biblical text. As academic disciplines and academic publishing proliferate and become more complex in a digital and global context, synthesising volumes such as this one have taken on new importance for both specialists and generalists alike. That is particularly the case in interdisciplinary areas of research. This volume therefore sets out to make linguistic theory clearer and more accessible to biblical scholars in particular, not only by careful explanation but also by specific illustration, drawing upon ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages within the Christian biblical corpus. The volume assists the reader in distinguishing the separate assumptions and scope of study for the separate theories, recognising methods of approach that can be applied to any of the theories, and the role of an umbrella theory to enable all the others to fruitfully interact. The bibliographies provided are structured for the non-specialist, noting handbooks, companions, and glossaries, general introductions, and foundational texts. In so doing, this volume presents not only a fully up-to-date cross-section of linguistic research in biblical scholarship but also an explicit path into the field, while highlighting important avenues for continued investigation and collaboration.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004539816

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The essays in this volume, offered to Dr. Jenny Read-Heimerdinger on the occasion of her 70th birthday, cover subjects in New Testament textual criticism that are central to her research. In particular, the volume contains text critical studies of the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the early testimony of New Testament Greek and Coptic manuscripts, scribal tendencies in the first centuries, and linguistic approaches to textual criticism.

Author : Vilmos Ágel
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Bericht über Chancen von und Erfahrungen mit Kooperationsprojekten von Jugendhilfe und Schule. Wenn Schule gegenwärtig zum Thema wird, dann vor allem unter dem Aspekt ihrer Krise, die ganz offensichtlich nicht nur den strukturellen Rahmen, sondern auch ihre Inhalte und ihr Lehrpersonal gleichzeitig erfasst hat. Die Vorstellung, dass Schule der Ort sei, an dem Jugendliche auf die Bewältigung der Anforderungen vorbereitet würden, die die außer- bzw. nachschulische Wirklichkeit an die Individuen stellt, trifft angesichts des tief greifenden Strukturwandels gesellschaftlicher Teilbereiche und der damit veränderten Bedingungen für die Lebensführung und das Aufwachsen von Kindern und Jugendlichen heute noch weniger zu, als zu früheren Zeiten. Auf diesen veränderten Kontext wird zunehmend mit Kooperationsprojekten von Jugendhilfe und Schule reagiert, an die viele Hoffnungen geknüpft werden. Ob diese auch alle umgesetzt werden können, bleibt es zu klären. Denn ob und unter welchen Bedingungen die unterschiedlichen Rationalitäts- und Arbeitsformen der beiden Systeme zu einer Art Code-Synthese zusammenkommen können, ist noch lange nicht hinreichend geklärt. Das bsj-Jahrbuch soll einen Beitrag zu dieser Klärung beisteuern, indem es über Chancen und Grenzen einer Öffnung ebenso wie über die Erfahrungen, die der bsj bei seinen Kooperationsprojekten mit der Schule gemacht hat, reflektiert und berichtet.

Author : Rutger Allan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004409068

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Allan, Rutger The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study of Polysemy. 2003 The great variety of usage types of the middle voice in Ancient Greek has excited the interest of generations of classical scholars. A number of intriguing questions, however, still have been left unanswered. What is the exact relation between the various middle usage types? How can the semantic element common to all usage types be defined? What is the relation between the middle voice and the passive voice in the aorist and future stems? To provide an answer to these questions, this study takes a novel approach. Following recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics, the middle voice in Ancient Greek is analysed as a polysemous network category. This approach results in a unified description of the semantics of the middle voice which also accounts for diachronical developments. ASCP 11 (2003), 286 p. Cloth - 79.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050633684