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A Discourse Analysis of Philippians: Method and Rhetoric in the Debate over Literary Integrity is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Part 1 of Reed’s Discourse Analysis of Philippians he supplies an introduction to discourse analysis and includes a sketch of its history before presenting a model of its use in analyzing the New Testament. He explains how discourse analysis can be used in systemic-functional linguistics and in the study of presuppositions and functional grammar in the New Testament. In Part 2, Reed carefully...

of the literary integrity of Philippians (and other Pauline letters). A few preliminary definitions are in order before turning to (i) a brief history of the theory of discourse analysis, (ii) a discussion of its major tenets and, in Chapter 2, (iii) a detailed model of discourse analysis. The term DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, which is used in somewhat different ways by various modern linguists, at its broadest level refers to the study and interpretation of both the spoken and written communication of humans.
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