FROM THE FIRST TO THE VERY LAST. ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF LOGIONS

• Authors: Nagy-L Janos
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Phrases from the gospels known as Jesus' sayings have constituted part of the cultural heritage of mankind for almost one and a half thousand years now. This paper analyses such sayings, referring to them as logions, using a Greek term. Logions, in spoken or written form, are normally cited as self-contained maxims, without their original contexts. As a first step, the author considers such independent versions of sayings. Then, the citations are analysed one by one, in the appropriate contexts. Four of the five versions of logions under discussion here are explicit instances of chiasme, a rhetorical-stylistic figure involving an inverse repetition of stems and/or suffixes. The main result of the discussion is that symbolic interpretations can be arrived at by a rhetorical and logical approach organically related to arguments drawn from textual analysis. The chiastic constructions analysed here are both of a logical and, depending on the genre of the text, of a rhetorical character, and their meanings are metaphorical. In investigations of this kind, contemporary text linguistics increasingly relies on arguments and actual results coming from neighbouring disciplines.

Keywords

EN

LOGIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Society of Hungarian Linguistics
• Journal: Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nagy-L Janos

• Janos L-Nagy, for postal address contact the journal editor; www.c3.hu/~magyarnyelv/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07143