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Some of today’s major discourse analysts of the New Testament have contributed to this resource, including E.A. Nida, W. Schenk, J.P. Louw and J. Callow. Their essays deal with the theory and method of discourse analysis and then demonstrate how to apply that methodology to studying the Gospels and Acts, the Pauline corpus, and the general epistles. Porter and Reed offer a helpful text readily...

Eugene A. Nida In any symbolic system such as language, the role of the context is maximized and the role of any one focal element is minimized (Joos 1972). This fact about language applies to all levels, from sounds to discourse units, but it can be most easily recognized in understanding the meanings of words. Without a context, lexical units have only a potentiality to occur in various contexts, but in combination with contexts, words have
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