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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...

functional roles. The following conventions are used in this work for diagramming semantic networks.11 The concept of ‘function’ is equally important to SFL, although it has received more detailed attention later in the theory’s evolution. FUNCTION not only concerns the semantic roles of linguistic forms, but the semantic roles of those forms in the immediate situation and the broader culture. Whereas system concerns the linguistic code, function concerns the semantic organisation of texts. Consequently,
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