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The Social-Science Commentary series presents a pioneering alternative commentary genre that offers a contextual approach to the study of the New Testament, thoroughly grounded in the original audience’s first-century cultural setting. This commentary on the Gospel of John builds on the unique format and success of the Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels and includes illustrations...

This consistent relexicalization and overlexicalization, along with focus on the interpersonal and modal aspect of language, point to what Halliday has labeled as “antilanguage” (Halliday 1978:164–82). “Antilanguage” is the language of an “antisociety,” that is “a society that is set up within another society as a conscious alternative to it. It is a mode of resistance, resistance which may take the form either of passive symbiosis or of active hostility and even destruction” (Halliday
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