Code-Switching in Luke and Acts (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Band 31) - Hardcover

Watt, Jonathan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082043695X ISBN 13: 9780820436951

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1997

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Divergence of style characterizes the Greek dialect that appears in the New Testament books of Luke and Acts. Some parts contain standard Koine while others show varying degrees of Semitic influence. This sociolinguistic study concludes that the continuum of Semitized Greek appearing in the ancient texts functions like the metaphoric variety of code-switching performed by modern bilinguals. The variations can be explained, in part, by Luke's tendency to use Semitic linguistic features when describing Jewish subject matter while retaining standard Koine for Hellenistic interest.

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The Author: Jonathan M. Watt, M.Div., M.A., Ph.D., is pastor of the College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He also serves as a part-time faculty member at Geneva College and at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh).

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 082043695X
• ISBN 13: 9780820436951
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 315
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