Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives / / Jean-Marc Heimerdinger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782386003321
• Autore: Heimerdinger Jean-Marc
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, Eng. : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-281-84145-5; 9786611841454; 0-567-05794-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 295
• Disciplina: 220.44
• Soggetti: Hebrew language - Discourse analysis; Hebrew language - Topic and comment; Foregrounding
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Reading University).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE AND NARRATIVE: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; Chapter 2 LONGACRE'S TEXT-LINGUISTIC MODEL: DESCRIPTION AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL; Chapter 3 TOPICALITY AND TOPICAL ENTITIES: AN ANALYSIS OF GENESIS 22; Chapter 4 DISCOURSE REFERENTS AND TOPICALITY; Chapter 5 FOCUS IN DIRECT SPEECH CLAUSES AND FOCUS IN THE NARRATIVE VERBAL CLAUSES; Chapter 6 ASPECTS OF FOREGROUNDING IN NARRATIVE DISCOURSE; Chapter 7 GENERAL CONCLUSION; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary ; distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate.

The organ music of Johannes Brahms / / by Barbara Owen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958536403321
• Autore: Owen Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0198042485; 9780198042488
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 184 p. : music
• Disciplina: 786.5092
• Soggetti: Organ music - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ), and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- PART I: BACKGROUND -- ONE: The Organ in the Life of Brahms -- TWO: Bach, Counterpoint, and Chorales -- THREE: Brahms as Revisor -- PART II: THE MUSIC -- FOUR: The Early Works -- FIVE: The Eleven Chorale Preludes -- SIX: Interpretation -- APPENDIX A: Editions -- APPENDIX B: The Organs in Brahms's World -- APPENDIX C: Organ Transcriptions of Works by Brahms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahmes, contextualized against other church and concert organists' repertoire of the time. Precisely because the collection of organ works is not extensive, the pieces--composed periodically throughout Brahms's lifetime--map his path as a composer, pinpointing various stages in his artistic development. The body of the manuscript is devoted to the history and analysis of Brahms's individual organ works and their interpretation, focusing on the importance of his predecessors and contemporaries in the composition and performance of these pieces.