SIL International Publications

Reasoning styles and types of hortatory discourse

Series: 
Journal of Translation
Volume Issue: 
2(2)
Author(s):
Levinsohn, Stephen H
Abstract: 

This paper presents a modification of the types of supportive information that Breeze (1992) identified for hortatory discourses as a basis for bringing out the mismatches that are most likely to occur when translating from a verb-object (VO) language to an object-verb (OV) language. Earlier sections review the factors that underlie Longacre's (1996) classification of texts into four broad categories and outline what characterizes mainline information for each genre. They are followed by illustrations of deductive and inductive reasoning from Koiné Greek and Ancient Hebrew, since deductive reasoning tends to correlate with instructional exhortations and inductive reasoning with attempts to persuade.

Issue Date: 
2006
Content Language: 
Subject: 
Relevance Theory
Discourse
Nature of Work: 
Extent: 
pages 1-10
Entry Number: 
40251