A Discourse Analysis of First Corinthians (Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 120)

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

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

Rhetorical Situation and Cultural Background

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

Overall Discourse Structure

3.1. Methodology
3.2. Macrosegmentation
3.3. Macrostructure
3.4. Theme

Constituent Analysis

4.1. Particle
4.2. Wave
4.3. Field

Other Features of Discourse

5.1. Peak
5.2. Participant reference
5.3. Clause word order
5.4. Quotations
5.5. The influence of the rhetorical situation

Discourse Analysis as a Study of Constraints

Appendix A. Texttype in I Corinthians
Appendix B. Greek Constituent Structure Displays for I Corinthians
References