27.1032, Calls: Hebrew, General Ling/USA

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Subject: 27.1032, Calls: Hebrew, General Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:34:47
From: Tania Notarius [tnotarius at gmail.com]
Subject: Annual Meeting Society of Biblical Literature

 
Full Title: Annual Meeting Society of Biblical Literature 

Date: 19-Nov-2016 - 22-Nov-2016
Location: San-Antonio, USA 
Contact Person: Jacobus Naude
Meeting Email: naudej at ufs.ac.za
Web Site: http://http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/annualmeeting.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Hebrew (heb)

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

Join the thousands of professors and students, authors and publishers,
religious leaders and interested laypersons at the Annual Meetings 2016 in San
Antonio! With more than 1,200 academic sessions, and workshops, along with one
of the world's largest exhibits of books and digital resources for biblical
studies, the Annual Meetings is one of the largest events of the year in the
fields of biblical scholarship, religious studies and theology.

Co-hosted by the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of
Religion, the Annual Meetings 2016 will be held November 19-22 in San Antonio,
TX.


Call for Papers: Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section (Society of Biblical
Literature, Annual Meeing)

The Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew section solicits papers for four joint
sessions. The first session (co-sponsored with Biblical Hebrew Poetry) is
entitled ''Linguistic Features of Biblical Hebrew Poetry.'' This session will
examine the question of whether poetry and prose in the Hebrew Bible have
different linguistic features, what those features are and how they should be
described. At one end of the spectrum are scholars who believe that prose and
poetry are distinct linguistic systems; at the other end of the spectrum are
scholars who believe that prose and poetry comprise one linguistic system. We
are also interested in analyses that account for (give reasons for) the
linguistic variation and/or differences between prose and poetry. The second
session (co-sponsored with NAPH) is entitled ''Mitigation and Intensification
in Biblical Hebrew.''

Research in pragmatics and discourse studies have shown that speakers make use
of a rich variety of mitigating and intensifying strategies in order to
heighten the effectiveness of the conversational interaction. This session
will explore mitigating and intensifying devices in Biblical Hebrew,
including, for example, restrictive adverbs, modal expressions, deictic
shifts, negative polarity items, rhetorical and conducive questions,
conditionals, and oaths. The third session (co-sponsored with NAPH) is
entitled ''Interrupted Syntactic Structures.''

This session will explore various syntactic phenomena that ''interrupt'' the
sentence syntax including vocatives and terms of address, parenthetical
remarks, sentence fragments, ''scrambling'' and ellipsis. The fourth session
(co-sponsored with NAPH) is non-thematic and entitled ''Linguistics and
Biblical Hebrew.'' Papers that address the study of Biblical Hebrew using a
well-articulated linguistic method are welcome, and those that apply
linguistics to particular Biblical Hebrew texts are especially encouraged.
Contact Prof Jacobus Naude naudej at ufs.ac.za for more information




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