Argument is War: Relevance-Theoretic Comprehension of the Conceptual Metaphor of War in the Apocalypse /
In Argument is War: Relevance-Theoretic Comprehension of the Conceptual Metaphor of War in the Apocalypse , Clifford T. Winters demonstrates that the apparent war in the Apocalypse is rather telling the story of the gospel : how Christ will restore Israel and, through them, the rest of the world. Wh...
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Language: English
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Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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Linguistic Biblical Studies ;
18.
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Call Number: BS2825.52
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Revelation Has Two Problems
- 1.2 Defining the Problem: "Relevance"
- 1.3 Defining the Problem: "Violence"
- 1.4 How These Problems Relate: "Judgment"
- 2 Methodology
- 2.1 A Long History of Study
- 2.2 Metaphor is Natural to Cognition
- 2.3 Metaphor is Natural to Comprehension
- 2.4 A Model for Combining RT and CMT : Hybrid Theory
- 2.5 Acknowledgment: "Structure" and "Meaning" in Other Disciplines
- 2.6 What This Book is Arguing
- 3 Composing the Conceptual Metaphor ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 3.1 ΣΗΜΑΙΝΩ
- 3.2 Metaphors in Revelation That Look like Daniel 2
- 3.3 ARGUMENT IS WAR Looks like Daniel 2
- 4 Elaborating and Completing ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 4.1 The Elaboration of ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 4.2 The Completion of ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 5 The Linguistic Instantiation of ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 5.1 Metalinguistic Signals and Deliberate Metaphors
- 5.2 Linguistic and Semantic Signals Other Than M-Flags
- 6 The Pragmatic Implicature ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 6.1 Ad Hoc Construction
- 6.2 Metarepresentation
- 6.3 Weak Implicatures
- 6.4 Backwards Inference
- 7 Implications and Conclusions
- 7.1 Summary of Evidence for ARGUMENT IS WAR
- 7.2 Summary of Implications
- Bibliography
- Linguistic and Literary Resources
- Biblical and Historical Resources
- Index.