Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David Gray" <david_gray AT sil.org>]

To all discourse analysists out there!

 

I recently re-read Lenart de Regt’s paper critiquing Alter’s translation of 
Genesis, and specifically his use of word-order. One thing that Alter doesn’t 
really discuss is how English handles topic, contrastive focus, and salient 
information. In order to properly critique Alter one would need to know this. 
Who has done work on discourse analysis of English?

 

REF:

Hebrew Syntactical Inversions and their Literary Equivalence in Robert 
Alter’s Translation of Genesis, unpublished paper from seminar on Hebrew 
Discourse Features at HG, UK, Autumn 2002.

 

David Gray

 

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