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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pragmatic notions in BH grammars
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:39:18 +1100

Hi Johannes,

I pulled a few references from my Endnote file on the subjects you mention. The ones below which are good is Ehlich, Wagner, and Warren.

On deixis see:
Ehlich, Konrad. 1979. Verwendungen der Deixis beim sprachlichen Handeln: Linguistisch-philologische Untersuchungen zum hebräischen deiktischen System. 2 vols. Forum Linguisticum 24. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

On performative verbs or utterances see:
Cole, P. 1974. “Hebrew tenses and the performative analysis.” Pages 73-89 in Papers from the 10th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Hillers, Delbert R. 1995. “Some performative utterances in the Bible.” Pages 757-766 in Pomegranates & Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom. Edited by David P. Wright, David Noel Freedman, and Avi Hurvitz. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Wagner, Andreas. 1997. Sprechakte und Sprechaktanalyse im Alten Testament: Untersuchungen im biblischen Hebräisch an der Nahtstelle zwischen Handlungsebene und Grammatik. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 253. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Wagner, Andreas. 1994. “Zum Problem von Nominalsatzen als Sprechhandlungen am Beispiel des Segnens im Althebraischen; oder: Gibt es neben primar und explizit performativen Ausserungen noch eine dritte Kategorie von Ausserungen?” Grazer Linguistische Studien 41: 81-93.

Zatelli, Ida. 1994. “Analysis of Lexemes from a Conversational Prose Text: hnh as a Signal of a Performative Utterance in 1 Sam. 25:41.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 7: 5-11.

On speech act or speech in general see:
Davies, Graham I. 1993. “Reply to "Pragmalinguistics and speech act theory as applied to Classical Hebrew".” Zeitschrift fur Althebraistik 6: 60-78.

Macky, P. W. 1987. “The multiple purposes of Biblical speech acts.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 8: 50-61.

Miller, Cynthia L. 2003 [1996]. The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Linguistic Analysis. Harvard Semitic Monographs 55. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

Sornig, Karl. 1998. “Sprechakte und Sprechaktanalyse im Alten Testament. Untersuchungen im Biblischen Hebraisch an der Nahtstelle zwischen Handlungsebene und Grammatik.” Grazer Linguistische Studien 49: 155-158.

Wagner, Andreas. 1994. “BEKENNEN. Zur Analyse eines religiösen Sprechakts.” Pages 117-124 in Satz -- Text -- Diskurs. Akten des 27. Linguistischen Kolloqiums Münster 1992. 2 vols. Edited by Peter-Paul König and Helmut Wiegers.

Wagner, Andreas. 2002. “Die Stellung der Sprechakttheorie in Hebraistik und Exegese.” Pages 55-83 in Vetus Testamentum Congress Volume. Edited by Andre Lemaire. Basel.

Warren, Andy. 1998. “Modality, Reference, and Speech Acts in the Psalms.” PhD diss., Cambridge University.

Zatelli, Ida. 1993. “Pragmalinguistics and Speech-Act Theory as Applied to Classical Hebrew.” Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 6: 60-74.


Now concerning background/foreground and discourse markers and so forth, there were too many for me to post. My email bounced from the forums because it was too large. So I can send you some references off-list if you desire.

Hope something there is useful to you.

Regards,
David Kummerow.

Dear friends,
I'm looking for grammars of Biblical Hebrew following a pragmatic approach. I know three:
-Gary Aland Long, Grammatical concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew : Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar, Peabody 2002.
-B.M. Rocine, Learning Biblical Hebrew. A New Approach Using Discourse Analysis, Macon 2000.

-Ch.H.J. Van Der Merwe, J.A. Naudé, J.H. Kroeze, A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar, Sheffield 1999.

Are there any others (even dealing only with single issues, such as performative verbs, background/foreground distinction, discourse markers, presupposition, speech act, deixis and so on)?

Johannes Buxtorf
Basel








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