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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...

such as adjacency pairs (e.g. offer followed by acceptance), parallelism, theme-rheme development and given-new information.16 whereas TEXTURE concerns the cohesive properties of smaller linguistic units (i.e. microstructures), STRUCTURE refers to larger linguistic units (i.e. macrostructures) such as genre (or register) and text-types. Structure ‘allows us to distinguish between complete and incomplete texts on the one hand, and between different generic forms on the other’.17 The notion of structure
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