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

by StefanoCotrozzi (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $71.48

  A monograph on biblical linguistics that is a pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of 'foregrounding' - the deviation from some norm or convention - in Old Testament narratives. It critiques the particular evaluative device known as the 'historic present', a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event.