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Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament
Theories and Applications
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 195
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This book introduces sociolinguistic criticism to New Testament studies. The individual essays cover a wide range of sociolinguistic theories (multilingualism, speech communities and individuals, language and social domains, diglossia, digraphia, codeswitching, language maintenance and shift, communication accommodation theory, social identity theory, linguistic politeness theory, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, register analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, etc.) that treat topics and issues pertaining to the language and sociolinguistic contexts of the New Testament, social memory, orality and literacy, and the oral traditions of the Gospels, and various texts and genres in the New Testament.
Hughson T. Ong, PhD (2015), McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University (Canada), is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Emmanuel Bible College (Canada). He is author of The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament (Brill, 2016) and numerous New Testament journal articles and book essays using sociolinguistic and linguistic methodologies. He is also the co-editor of The Origins of Johnâs Gospel (Brill, 2016) and Is the Gospel Good News? (Wipf & Stock, 2019).
This book serves as a standard reference book for libraries and biblical scholars (but also sociolinguists, linguists, and scholars in the social sciences who might be interested in understanding how sociolinguistic theories can be applied to a dead language like the Greek of the New Testament). It can also serve as a textbook for sociolinguistics criticism of the Bible for graduate students. It is probably the first comprehensive treatment of sociolinguistics criticism in biblical studies.