Showing all posts tagged "Linguistics"
Reading for Values (Part 2)
[This is part two of a three part series. Click here for part 1]
The second major part of the model is referred to as ENGAGEMENT. This has to do with the way people use language "to present themselves as recognizing, answering, ignoring, challen...
Posted on June 14th, 2014
Reading for Values (Part 1)
This past Sunday (June 8, 2014) at church, I began teaching my portion of a class on 1 Corinthians. I spent the first part of the class talking about reading the text for values and describing the model of appraisal we’ll use to do that. This is t...
Posted on June 13th, 2014
Look what I got today
Just back in the office from vacation and look what was on my desk!
Posted on June 4th, 2014
Linguistics Bibliography
I’ll be teaching Introduction to Linguistics in the 2014 Fall semester. It’ll focus on Systemic-Functional Linguistics. I’ve been building my bibliography. Click here to take a gander at it.
Posted on February 11th, 2014
The (Re-)Aligning Power of Questions
In the first semester of Elementary Greek, I teach my students the grammatical signals for recognizing questions in text by spotting things like interrogative pronouns (e.g., τίς [Who? What?]) and certain particles/adverbs (e.g., πῶς [How?]). We a...
Posted on January 8th, 2014
Reader positioning
I don’t remember when, but at some point in the past few years, my Mom gave me a handful of children’s books from my childhood, so I could read them to my own kids. One of those books is Syd Hoff’s _The Littlest Leaguer_ (although mine was publish...
Posted on January 4th, 2014
λαῖλαψ μεγάλη ἀνέμου, γαλήνη μεγάλη, and φόβον μέγαν (Mark 4:37, 39, and 41)
This post is part one of two (part two coming soon).
In Appraisal Theory (cf. the Appraisal Web site), we talk about three systems from which a language user may choose to make interpersonal meaning: ATTITUDE, which includes the subsystems AFFECT...
Posted on December 16th, 2013
A few thoughts on Jude vv. 12–13
I could not for the life of me get this blog post to format the way I wanted to, so I put it into a Google Doc. Click here to view. You can also access it here.
Posted on October 6th, 2013