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- ISBN 9781433163944
- Weight: 495g
- Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Presupposition and [E]motion examines the modal semantics of presupposition in the New Testament. It argues that presupposition is the imaginative or mental exercise done by the reader or hearer to reflect, complement, or react among other features to what is being said. The book contends that the two major categories of mood, epistemic (+ assertion [Realis]) and deontic (-assertion [Irrealis]), must be seen in opposition to each other, and both together must be seen in opposition to the participle as well as to the infinitive. Ultimately, the book suggests, the importance of differentiating semantics from pragmatics, at the same time combining them within a specific context, is the key to understand the pragmatic effect of the upgraded participle.
Roque N. Albuquerque is a full-time faculty member at the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) in the Institute of Linguistics and Literature in Ceará State. He holds a Ph.D. in New Testament from Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis and in Language Studies from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He has taught Greek and New Testament for the past twenty years. His postdoctoral research is in the Greek comedy of Aristophanes with Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
