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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...

one reader is perfectly cohesive in the eyes of another. We are hard-pressed to locate a totally incohesive text in the New Testament. So, the question remains: What properties of language contribute to the production and interpretation of cohesive or incohesive texts? To explain this Halliday and Hasan appeal to the relationship between a text and its external world (i.e. context of situation and of culture) and the relationship between a text and its inner world (i.e. co-text). The former relationship
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