TY  - BOOK
AU  - Runge,Steven E.
TI  - Discourse grammar of the Greek New Testament: a practical introduction for teaching and exegesis 
T2  - Lexham Bible reference series
SN  - 9781598565836 (alk. paper)
AV  - PA 817 .R86 2010
U1  - 487/.4 22
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Language, style
KW  - Greek language, Biblical
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Discourse analysis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-404); Foundations  -- Introduction -- Connecting Prepositions -- Forward-Pointing Devices -- Forward-Pointing Reference and Target -- Point/Counterpoint Sets -- Metacomments -- Historical Present -- Redundant Quotative Frames -- Application -- Tail-Head Linkage -- Information Structuring Devices -- Information Structure -- Framing Devices (1) -- Framing Devices (2) -- Circumstantial Frames -- Emphasis -- Left-Dislocations -- Thematic Highlighting Devices -- Overspecification and Right-Dislocation -- Thematic Addition -- Changed Reference and Thematic Address -- Near/Far Distinction
N2  - Introducing a function-based approach to linguistics, Runge explores New testament Greek grammatical conventions by focusing on the communication tasks they accomplish.  His study of the ways in which words are used in text and contexts has less to do with the specifics of speech and more to do with how humans are wired to process it.  Therefore, Runge looks at how all languages operate before focusing on Greek.  This examination of linguistics in general simplifies the analytical process, and explains how and why we communicate as we do. Readers will learn that discourse analysis necessary compliments today's formal approaches to linguistics, as they are simultaneously led to more accurate description of biblical text
ER  -