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Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives /

This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heimerdinger, Jean-Marc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1999.
Colección:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 295.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language, discourse and narrative: An analytical framework
  • Longacre's text-linguistic model: Description and critical appraisal
  • topicality and topical entities: An analysis of Genesis 22
  • Discourse referents and topicality
  • Focus in direct speech clauses and focus in the narrative verbal clauses
  • Aspects of foregrounding in narrative discourse
  • General conclusion.