LEADER 03166nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910782386003321 005 20230810214600.0 010 $a1-281-84145-5 010 $a9786611841454 010 $a0-567-05794-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542364 035 $a(EBL)436557 035 $a(OCoLC)276867651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260146 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12104874 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260146 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191165 035 $a(PQKB)11207185 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436557 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10250911 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL184145 035 $a(OCoLC)893334066 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542364 100 $a19991101h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTopic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives /$fJean-Marc Heimerdinger 210 1$aSheffield, Eng. :$cSheffield Academic Press,$d1999. 210 4$aŠ1999 215 $a1 online resource (289 pages) 225 1 $aJournal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;$v295 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Reading University). 311 0 $a1-84127-014-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThis study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. 410 0$aJournal for the study of the Old Testament.$pSupplement series ;$v295. 606 $aHebrew language$xDiscourse analysis 606 $aHebrew language$xTopic and comment 606 $aForegrounding 615 0$aHebrew language$xDiscourse analysis. 615 0$aHebrew language$xTopic and comment. 615 0$aForegrounding. 676 $a220.44 700 $aHeimerdinger$b Jean-Marc$01489379 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782386003321 996 $aTopic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives$93710066 997 $aUNINA