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Author Martín-Asensio, Gustavo

Title Transitivity-based foregrounding in the Acts of the Apostles : a functional-grammatical approach to the Lukan perspective / Gustavo Martín-Asensio
Published Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 202
Studies in New Testament Greek ; 8
Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 202.
Studies in New Testament Greek ; 8
Contents Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 HALLIDAYAN FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS HEIR TO NEW TESTAMENT RHETORICAL CRITICISM: THE CASE OF FOREGROUNDING; Chapter 2 THE RELEVANCE OF FOREGROUNDING FOR INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION: THE EPISODE OF PAUL''S SHIPWRECK (ACTS 27) AS A CASE STUDY; Chapter 3 PARTICIPANT REFERENCE AND FOREGROUNDED TRANSITIVITY PATTERNS IN THE STEPHEN EPISODE (ACTS 6-7); Chapter 4 LUKE''S SECOND SURVEY OF ISRAEL''S HISTORY(ACTS 13.16B-25): REDACTION AND REGISTER VARIATION
Chapter 5 FOREGROUNDING SCHEME AND RHETORICAL STRATEGYIN THE EPISODE OF PAUL''S ARREST AND DEFENSE(ACTS 21-22)Chapter 6 FOREGROUNDED TRANSITIVITY PATTERNS IN THE PENTECOST EPISODE (ACTS 2); CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors
Summary This study of the language of Acts is based on M.A.K. Halliday's functional grammar, which offers a theory based on linguistic choices and the effects they have on readers or hearers. Interacting with selected interpretations from, among others, C.K. Barrett, Ben C. Witherington, Jerome Neyrey, Jacob Jervell and John Lentz, Mart+¡n-Asensio argues that transitivity ('who does what to whom') emerges as a key factor in the foregrounding scheme of Acts, and this analysis offers a linguistically based perspective on Luke's overall concern to underline the supremacy of the divine will on the stage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-198) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Acts -- Language, style
Bible. Acts fast
Bibel Apostelgeschichte gnd
Subject Foregrounding.
Rhetoric in the Bible.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
Foregrounding
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Rhetoric in the Bible
Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek)
Verteltheorie.
Discourse analysis.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567396679
0567396673
1283197421
9781283197427