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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Re[6]: WP
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:01:50 -0700


Peter,
> Dear Dave,
>
> Thank you for your answer. I must say you have a good point with the
> development of children's speech etc. Let me just take up one point.
> You wrote:
>
> "So I'm suggesting that we need to answer more of the questions still
> pending about
> the nature of individual clauses before our discourse analysis has a
> solid basis on which to stand. We can attempt discourse analysis
> based on the current state of things, of course, but IMO the results
> are far from assured because we're building on assumptions as
> much as anything else. Does that help?"
>
> Yes, it does help. But I wonder if we are expecting too much to get
> things right first at the low level. It looks as if we never will get
> an agreed firm foundation to build on (I guess they had similar
> problems building the tower of Babel!). So perhaps we should look on
> discourse analysis not as a fancy decoration which might be top-heavy
> on a weak foundation, but rather as a buttress to keep our shaky
> building standing firm. Less metaphorically, we can try to use
> discourse analysis to test and refine our assumptions or hypotheses
> and make a firmer and better rounded model of the whole of b-hebrew.

Yes. I can see the two fields playing off each other and refining
one another, and would be delighted to be part of such an
enterprise.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.




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