Publication details
FSP, Ideology and Aesthetics in the New Testament Parables
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The present paper offers an analysis of a number of New Testament parables, which are discussed from the point of view of the Firbasian theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP). It looks at different aspects of the discourse, especially in regard to the ideology and aesthetics employed within verbal realisation of the texts. Research has shown (Firbas 1995, Svoboda 2006, Hurtová 2009; cf. Adam 2006) that the writer’s communicative purpose is typically related to the aesthetic function carried by the text, and determines the writer’s communicative strategies. The dynamic nature of dynamic semantic functions ascribed to individual sentence constituents allows the writer to implement specific communicative purposes – according to the relative degree of communicative dynamism of individual elements of the sentence. Thus, the way the sentence is perspectived (implementing Presentation or Quality Scale respectively) seems to determine the communicative purpose of the speaker. |