Observing Impact of Linguistics on Point-of-View Crafting. . .with the help...
“. . .The bushes twitched again. . . .A head and a chest faced him, half-hidden. . . .The man turned sideways in the bushes and looked at Lok along his shoulder. A stick rose upright and there was a...
View ArticleLinguistics influencing Point of View: Trying to make a ‘Police Shooting’...
The Feb 5/2013 post demonstrated how readers can be led to experience events through a Neanderthal point of view simply by linguistic manipulation, specifically, the avoidance of transitive clauses....
View ArticleCreating Diversity: Appraisal Theory and the account of King Herod and the...
The key point of Yamasaki’s Perspective Criticism is that storytellers craft points of view as a means of providing “evaluative guidance” for their putative audience in order to generate within them a...
View ArticleUncharted “viewpoint” territories: a possible link between communicative...
As a new resource for the study of viewpoint, it is useful to consider how communicative purpose generates a relative relationship between writer/speaker viewpoint and discourse temporality. In a New...
View ArticleSome Initial Comments on the Potential of Verbal Aspect and ‘Point of View’...
One of the major resources for the crafting of point of view (POV) in the Greek of the New Testament is the use of verbal aspect (VA). VA has been somewhat of a hot topic in Biblical Greek studies...
View ArticlePerspective Criticism Meets SFL Genre Theory: With Ruth 4:1-6 as a Test Case...
With this discussion I wish to show how a fuller explanatory potential of perspective criticism is brought to bear when situated within a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) framework. It is my hope...
View ArticleResponse to Zachary Dawson’s Point-of-View Analysis of Ruth 4:1-6 – GARY...
In a recent post (Apr 9/2014), Zachary Dawson digs into the point-of-view dynamics of Ruth 4:1-6, and today’s post interacts with Dawson’s point-of-view analysis of this passage. It is good how Dawson...
View ArticlePositioning Readers with Perspective (Acts 13:4–12) – JAMES D. DVORAK
. . .One of my research interests as a discourse analyst is how language users–for this discussion, narrators–utilize the information plane both to express her or his own “stance(s)” and, as a...
View ArticleBilingualism in Perspective: Ideology Construed Through Language Shifting in...
To this day, a fully satisfactory answer for why the book of Daniel contains both Hebrew and Aramaic portions has eluded biblical scholarship. However, Bill Arnold charted new ground for this question...
View ArticleBilingualism in Perspective: Ideology Construed Through Language Shifting in...
That Daniel 7 remains in Aramaic before the Hebrew text recommences in chapter 8 has puzzled biblical scholars for years, and no answer to this question to date has fully satisfied this query. It is...
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