Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Marc Heimerdinger
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| Autore: |
Heimerdinger Jean-Marc
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| Titolo: |
Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Marc Heimerdinger
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| Pubblicazione: | Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 220.44 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hebrew language - Discourse analysis |
| Hebrew language - Topic and comment | |
| Foregrounding | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. A new model is offered |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives |
| ISBN: | 1-281-84145-5 |
| 9786611841454 | |
| 0-567-05794-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453561903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 295.