Argument is war : : relevance-theoretic comprehension of the conceptual metaphor of war in the Apocalypse /

Argument is war : : relevance-theoretic comprehension of the conceptual metaphor of war in the Apocalypse / / by Clifford T. Winters.

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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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Superior document:Linguistic biblical studies ; Volume 18
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Winters, Clifford,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Linguistic biblical studies ; Volume 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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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.

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