Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament

Theories and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49973-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 195, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

This book introduces sociolinguistic criticism to New Testament studies. The individual essays cover a wide range of sociolinguistic theories (multilingualism, speech communities and individuals, language and social domains, diglossia, digraphia, codeswitching, language maintenance and shift, communication accommodation theory, social identity theory, linguistic politeness theory, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, register analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, etc.) that treat topics and issues pertaining to the language and sociolinguistic contexts of the New Testament, social memory, orality and literacy, and the oral traditions of the Gospels, and various texts and genres in the New Testament.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ong, Hughson T

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Hughson T. Ong, PhD (2015), McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University (Canada), is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Emmanuel Bible College (Canada). He is author of The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament (Brill, 2016) and numerous New Testament journal articles and book essays using sociolinguistic and linguistic methodologies. He is also the co-editor of The Origins of John’s Gospel (Brill, 2016) and Is the Gospel Good News? (Wipf & Stock, 2019).