Compare any languages and you’ll find they have similar tasks that need to be accomplished. Whether it’s creating anticipation, highlighting something important, or structuring the overall flow, the discourse devices that accomplish these tasks help us understand the meaning of the text.
In this course, Dr. Runge helps you understand how these discourse devices function both in English and Greek so you can better exegete the Greek New Testament and communicate it’s meaning from the pulpit or in the classroom.
Dr. Runge explores these discourse devices in easy-to-understand language and with illustrations of how we use them in English. He then shows you the exegetical significance of these devices for interpreting the Greek New Testament.
Introduction
Introduction
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
2m
Foundations of Discourse Grammar
Objectives
4m
Principles vs. Rules
4m
Principle 1: Choice Implies Meaning
3m
Example 1: Mark 5:25–27
4m
Using a Visual Filter to Study Verbal Moods in the Gospels
5m
Example 2: Ephesians 5:18–22
5m
No Choice, No Meaning
1m
Principle 2: Markedness
3m
Organizational Framework
3m
Markedness in Real Life
3m
Young Frankenstein
3m
Principle 3: Semantic Meaning vs. Pragmatic Effect
4m
Examples of Naming
4m
The Dude Commercial
2m
Using the Analysis View to Find Pragmatic Effects of ἀδελφός (adelphos)
4m
Review of the Three Principles
2m
Connectives
Introduction to Connectives
6m
Asyndeton
4m
Καί (kai) and Adverbial Καί (kai)
6m
Γάρ (gar)
4m
Μέν (men)
4m
Ἀλλά (alla)
4m
Processing Discourse
5m
Δέ (de) and Narrative Τότε (tote)
6m
Using the Sentence Diagramming Tool for Sermon Preparation
5m
Οὖν (oun)
6m
Διὰ τοῦτο (dia touto)
7m
Connectives in Philippians 3
13m
Forward-Pointing Devices (FPDs)
Introducing FPDs
6m
Reference and Target
3m
Questions and Pronouns
7m
Adverbs
3m
The Use of Μέν (men)
4m
Using a Syntax Search to Find Point/Counterpoint Sets
8m
The Use of Εί Μή (ei mē) Exceptions
5m
Use of Ἀλλά (alla)
5m
Metacomments
8m
Searching LDGNT or HDNT for Metacomments
7m
Vocatives
6m
Historical Present
7m
Redundant Quotative Frames
5m
Tail-Head Linkage
4m
Introduction to Information Structure
Mental Representations
6m
Structure of Information
4m
Structuring Information
3m
Natural Information Flow
9m
Questions, Presuppositions, and Answers
5m
Frames of Reference
5m
File Cabinets
8m
Status of Information
3m
Frames of Reference: New Testament Examples
11m
Frames of Reference: More New Testament Examples
4m
Topical Frames
6m
Setting Up a Custom Guide for Technical Commentaries
5m
Topical Frames Examples
5m
Temporal Frames
6m
Spatial Frames
5m
Contrast
2m
Conditional/Exceptive Frames
6m
Searching the Grammatical Constructions Dataset
5m
Comparative Frames
4m
Reason/Result Frames
3m
Circumstantial Frames, Part 1
7m
Circumstantial Frames, Part 2
4m
Circumstantial Frames, Part 3
4m
Using the Cited By Tool with a Custom Grammar Collection
5m
Introduction to Thematic Highlighting Devices
Principles
4m
Overspecification
6m
Overspecification and Point of View
5m
Searching the Referent Dataset to Examine Point of View in Narrative