Runge, "Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark's Parable of the Sower"
Steven Runge has the latest article in Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics: “Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark’s Parable of the Sower.” According to the abstract:
This study applies the cognitive model of Chafe and GivoĢn, and the information-structure model of Lambrecht as applied by Levinsohn and Runge to the Markan explanation of the Parable of the Sower (4:14ā20). The primary objective is to identify and analyze other linguistic devices, besides demonstratives, which might clarify the apparent prominence given to the unfruitful scatterings in Markās account. This study provides the necessary framework for comparing Markās pragmatic weighting of saliency to that found in Matthew and Lukeās accounts in order to determine whether Markās version is consistent with or divergent from the other traditions.
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