Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 17/08/2004 17:18, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

> Peter Kirk wrote:
>
>  
>
> > The rather similarproject on which I have been working (see
> > http://www.ktbh-team.org/) has had a lot of input from cognitive linguists
> > who are also experts on RT. From my own perspective, this input has been
> > hard to assimilate; in principle it should make for a very good product but
> > in practice the effort required to get there looks unrealistic.
> >    
>
> Peter,
>
> I read the relevant portions of your paper "Holy Communicative" and it
> sounds like Ernst-August Gutt has raised some very good questions about DE
> translation methodology. While I applaud his efforts, that issue is somewhat
> outside of my current focus which is semantics defined in a broad sense
> (spilling into pragmatics somewhat).
>
> My goal is to develop a working model for defining cognitive frames.
> Relevance Theory looks like it might significantly contribute to the
> theoretical structure for a project of this nature, so I am taking a look at
> it. As a test case the verb CWR (Ex. 32:4) provides a problem challenging
> enough to smoke out weakness in the theoretical model.
>  

Clay, I only criticised a very small part of Gutt's argument. Plenty of 
what he has written deals with application of RT to written texts, and 
not only to translation. I would advise you to read his book if you want 
to understand the application of RT to ancient texts.


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