Creation language in Romans 8 : a study in Monosemy / by Gregory P. Fewster.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fewster develops the theory of lexical monosemy, in a systemic-functional linguistic framework, and disputes concensus readings of?????? as nature in Romans 8.

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One. Creation Language in Romans 8: A Survey of Interpretation and Method; Interpretations of Creation Language in Rom 8.18-23; Among the Fathers and Reformers; Ktisis in Anthropological and Cosmological Perspective; Contemporary Consensus in the ktisis Debate; Voices of Dissent and Viable Alternatives; Conclusion; Evaluating Interpretive Methods and the Problem of Word Studies; Common Approaches; Lexical Meaning and Lexical Function; Conclusion; Is There a Way Forward?; Selecting an Approach; Procedure and Thesis.

Chapter Two. Systemic Functional Monosemy: A Theory of Lexical Meaning and FunctionIntroducing Linguistic Semantics; Terms and Concepts; Cognitive Polysemy; Conclusion; Traditional Approaches in Biblical Lexical Semantics; The Gloss and Translational Approaches; Theological Lexicography; Contextual Approaches; Conclusion; Monosemy in Cognitive and Systemic Functional Perspective; Cognitive Beginnings in the Work of Charles Ruhl; Lexical Semantics from a SFL Perspective; Some Key Details in a Proposed Model; Moving from Cognitive to Functional Monosemy; Conclusion.

Chapter Three. Corpus Linguistics: Lexicographical Data Collection, Theory, and AnalysisIntroducing Corpus Linguistics: General Principles and Goals; Establishing a Representative Corpus of Hellenistic Greek; The Nature of the Greek of the New Testament; Representing Meaningful Patterns in Hellenistic Greek; Conclusion; Corpus Theory and the Analysis of Data; The Phenomenon of Collocation; Distinguishing Qualitative and Quantitative Measures; Collocation and Other Quantitative Phenomena; Qualitative Measures in Corpus Analysis; Conclusion; Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Monosemy.

Lexicogrammatical Patterning and PolysemyLexicogrammatical Patterning and Monosemy; Conclusion; Chapter Four. Modeling Lexicogrammatical Metaphor; Traditional Approaches to Metaphor; Systemic Functional Approaches to Metaphor; Essential Principles of Grammatical Metaphor; Metaphorical Construals and Motivational Factors; Conclusion; Lexicogrammatical Metaphor; Metaphor as Lexical and Grammatical; Ideational and Interpersonal Implications of Lexicogrammatical Metaphor; A Taxonomy of Lexicogrammatical Metaphor; Conclusion; A Model for the Analysis of Lexicogrammatical Metaphor.

Lexicogrammatical Metaphor in Binocular PerspectiveThe Role of the Corpus in the Binocular Perspective; Identifying Metaphorical Expressions; Conclusion; A Procedure for Analyzing the Metafunctional Contribution of Lexicogrammatical Metaphorical Extension; Chapter Five. Corpus Insights into Creation Language in Hellenistic Greek; Corpus Analyses and Source Criticism; Qualitative Data; Frequency of the Lexeme; Distribution of the Various Inflections; Lexical Patterning: Collocations and Semantic Associations; Basic Collocation Patterns; Collocations Indicating Spatio/Temporal Reference.

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