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Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetics is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study tackles the neglected subject of word order in biblical Hebrew poetry. The fact that the order of clause constituents frequently differs from that found in prose has often been noted, but no systematic attempt has been offered by way of explanation. Here two separate factors are taken into consideration: that of purely poetic variation (defamiliarisation), and that of pragmatic...

In this section an outline of the theory of Information structure and the definitions of its essential components are presented in order to give the reader a working knowledge of what is involved in the theory.20 Lambrecht’s work centres upon the principal pragmatic functions of language in general. By ‘pragmatic’ is meant that aspect of language which goes beyond sentence grammar, which takes into consideration both the context in which the
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