Tradition has identified him as James the brother of the Lord, referred to in Matt. The author of the book was a man named James (or Jacob, the Hebrew form of the name). Verb functions and clause word order are examined with a view to rounding out the study with a presentation on discourse type and suggested salience levels for hortatory text type in Koiné Greek. Brief results of studying participant reference, worlds of reference, quote formulas, and chiasmus are presented. Areas of turbulence are charted to discover peak material which might be the hortatory equivalent to a narrative climax. Based on these sections, a macrostructure is proposed. The rest of the analysis is based on this division of the text. A suggestion is made that James can be understood as a collection of eighteen sections that are lexically related. Next, the results of studying the segmentation of James is presented. The results of the study are presented in this paper.įirst, background information as regards the author and reader is presented. In an attempt to discover structural relationships in the book, Longacre's techniques of studying discourse were applied to the Greek text of James. This paper grows out of a class project in text analysis taught by Robert Longacre. The book of James is a clear example of a hortatory text in Koiné Greek however, it does not follow a linear progression from one idea to another, but rather presents a collection of exhortations which Nida has described as related by 'stream of consciousness' (1983:116).
Discourse Structure in James Toward an Analysis of the Discourse Structure
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