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Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives(The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives(The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)


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This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"—the deviation from some norm or convention—in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the "historic present", a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation. He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view.

Table of Contents:
1. THE CONCEPT OF FOREGROUNDING 1.1 The Many Facets of Foregrounding 1.2 Overview of the Work 2. A SHORT HISTORY OF PRAGMATIC FOREGROUNDING 2.1 Shklovsky and the Russian Formalists 2.2. The Prague School 2.3 British Stylistics 2.4 Empirical Studies 2.5 Summary 2.6 The Approach Followed in This Work 3. SCHEMA THEORY 3.1 A Short History of the Concept of ‘Schema' 3.2 Other Terms: Frame, Scenario and Script 3.3 Schank and Abelson's Version of Schema Theory (1977) 3.4. Further Developments in Schema Theory 3.5 Evidence for Schemata 3.6 Criticism Levelled at Schema Theory 3.7 Schemata and Foregrounding 3.8 Schemata and Culture 4. SCHEMATA AND FOREGROUNDING IN OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES 4.1 Schema Theory and the Old Testament 4.2 Frames 4.3 Schemata 4.4 Scripts 4.5 Plans 4.6 Goals 4.7 Themes 4.8 Conclusions 5. EVALUATION IN NARRATIVE &nbs

About the Author :
Stefano Cotrozzi is Exegetical Advisor with the Institute for Bible Translation in Moscow, Russia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780567688330
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 056768833X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Apr 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
  • Weight: 489 gr


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