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Modern linguistics is a relative newcomer in the scientific world, and text-linguistics, or discourse analysis, is one of its youngest disciplines. This fact has inclined many toward skepticism of its value for the Hebraist, yet much benefit is thereby overlooked. In this work, the author examines recent contributions to Hebrew text-linguistics by Niccacci, Andersen, Eskhult, Khan, and Longacre,...

The second of these two concepts is ‘Language as a part of human Behaviour’. No one would deny that language is a feature of human behaviour; and none would deny that language is expressed within a context. Tagmemics, however, takes these two facts strongly into consideration in its analysis. A political speech makes sense within its political and social context, for example. A series of instructions is elucidated by the details of its setting. These ‘truths’ are, for the most part, self-evident.
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