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Grice’s cooperative principle in the interpretation of the nt texts
Abstract
The dominating concept of the NT language inevitably comes to a conclusion about irregularity (lack of normalization) of the NT texts because of the Semitisms considered as violations of the Greek authenticity. The given theoretical model arising from the structural installations of linguistic research, evidently breaks communicative reality in which Grice’s «cooperative principle» and Leech’s «politeness principle» have to be executed. Instead the dominating view assumes an unrealistic picture of author’s and reader’s activity in which the addressee of NT texts feels strange about the language used by the authors; the authors do not know the language they write; secondary interpreters (researchers) know the language in which the NT texts had to be created, much better than the authors themselves
Keywords
linguistic interpretation of the NT texts, communicative and structural paradigms of linguistic description, the communicative principles (Grice’s cooperative and Leech’s politeness principles), unrealistic model of communicat
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