A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel

Download or read book A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel written by Colin Toffelmire and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel, Colin M. Toffelmire presents a thorough analysis of the text of Joel from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. While traditional explorations of Joel generally engage the book from an historical or literary perspective, here Toffelmire examines syntactic and semantic patterning in the book, and builds from there toward a description of the linguistic register and context of situation that these linguistic patterns suggest. This work also showcases the usefulness of discourse analysis grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics for the analysis of ancient texts.