This book utilizes principles of discourse analysis, cultural anthropology, and biblical studies to analyze First Corinthians. It draws on concepts of text organization from the work of Robert E. Longacre and Kenneth L. Pike. It demonstrates that discourse analysis is an important tool for the study of texts, even ancient ones.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
- Introduction
- Rhetorical Situation and Cultural Background
- Overall Discourse Structure
- Constituent Analysis
- Other Features of Discourse
- Discourse Analysis as a Study of Constraints
1.1. The research problem
1.2. The study of discourse in the field of Linguistics
1.3. The textual basis for the study
1.4. Methodology
2.1. Setting and background
2.2. Literary concerns
2.3. The place of a schema in understanding
2.4. Aspects of culture at Corinth
2.5 Christianity and culture at Corinth
3.1. Methodology
3.2. Macrosegmentation
3.3. Macrostructure
3.4. Theme
4.1. Particle
4.2. Wave
4.3. Field
5.1. Peak
5.2. Participant reference
5.3. Clause word order
5.4. Quotations
5.5. The influence of the rhetorical situation
Appendix A. Texttype in I Corinthians
Appendix B. Greek Constituent Structure Displays for I Corinthians
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