신약성서 헬라어의 현저성 표지들(Prominence Markers)

Prominence Markers of the New Testament Greek

This study deals with prominence in terms of New Testament discourse. Prominence theory is one of the issues that has been continually discussed in discourse analysis. Such a concern is legitimate because it would be impossible to understand a text without recognizing prominence markers in it, and because it also impossible to understand a text of which all of information has been focalized. It is fair to say that an readable and understandable discourse is the one that contains unmarked (or background) and marked (prominent) information in an appropriate portion. Likewise, it is also significant for language users to be capable of being familiar with various prominence markers in discourse. The present study is intended to enhance modern biblical exegetes' ability to process and understand the New Testament texts in term of prominence In order to take into account what sort of prominence markers the New Testament Greek has, it is important to keep in mind that a text consists of such various categories as language, grammar, syntax, pragmatics and semantics. So, the determination of prominence markers must be made on the basis of those units. this paper focuses upon four ones as categories to create prominence in Greek New Testament discourse. 1. Repetitive occurrence of paragraph boundary markers such as places and characters 2. Such linguistic expressions as ἐγω, σύ, αὐτός (emphatic) αὐτός jκαί ἰδού 3. Grammatical indicators as word order(noun+adverbial, noun+ possessive noun, demonstrative pronoun+noun), clause/sentence structure (the order of subject, verb and object); verbal aspect (perfective, imperfective and stative aspect); passive voice; Greek article. 4. Semantic/cognitive prominence as unexpected information in terms of frame knowledge In particular, the major contribution of the present paper is to bring the concept of cognitive model such as frame into the topic of prominence.