Argument is war : relevance-theoretic comprehension of the conceptual metaphor of war in the Apocalypse / by Clifford T. Winters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winters, Clifford, author.

Series:

Linguistic biblical studies ; Volume 18.

Linguistic biblical studies ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Biblical teaching.

War.

Bible. Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

In Argument is War: Relevance-Theoretic Comprehension of the Conceptual Metaphor of War in the Apocalypse , Clifford T. Winters demonstrates that the apparent war in the Apocalypse is rather telling the story of the gospel : how Christ will restore Israel and, through them, the rest of the world. When Revelation is viewed through the corrective lens of cognitive linguistics, its violence becomes victory, its violent characters become Christ, and its bloody end becomes the blessed beginning of the New Jerusalem. Revelation is simply telling the story of the early church (the Gospels and Acts) to the early church, and it is using a conceptual metaphor (‘ARGUMENT IS WAR’) to do it.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 Revelation Has Two Problems

1.2 Defining the Problem: “Relevance”

1.3 Defining the Problem: “Violence”

1.4 How These Problems Relate: “Judgment”

2 Methodology

2.1 A Long History of Study

2.2 Metaphor is Natural to Cognition

2.3 Metaphor is Natural to Comprehension

2.4 A Model for Combining RT and CMT : Hybrid Theory

2.5 Acknowledgment: “Structure” and “Meaning” in Other Disciplines

2.6 What This Book is Arguing

3 Composing the Conceptual Metaphor ARGUMENT IS WAR

3.1 ΣΗΜΑΙΝΩ

3.2 Metaphors in Revelation That Look like Daniel 2

3.3 ARGUMENT IS WAR Looks like Daniel 2

4 Elaborating and Completing ARGUMENT IS WAR

4.1 The Elaboration of ARGUMENT IS WAR

4.2 The Completion of ARGUMENT IS WAR

5 The Linguistic Instantiation of ARGUMENT IS WAR

5.1 Metalinguistic Signals and Deliberate Metaphors

5.2 Linguistic and Semantic Signals Other Than M-Flags

6 The Pragmatic Implicature ARGUMENT IS WAR

6.1 Ad Hoc Construction

6.2 Metarepresentation

6.3 Weak Implicatures

6.4 Backwards Inference

7 Implications and Conclusions

7.1 Summary of Evidence for ARGUMENT IS WAR

7.2 Summary of Implications

Bibliography

Linguistic and Literary Resources

Biblical and Historical Resources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43577-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004435773 DOI