Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social by Adela Yarbro Collins

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For the importance of distinguishing between pragmatics (function of symptom and function of signal) and semantics (function of symbol) with regard to synonymy, see Baldinger: 212-253, especially 230-40. For the function of symbol, sympton, and signal in the trapezium, see Baldinger: 25459; Heger, 1976: 45-^6; Karl Bühler: 28ff. 26 Semeia Pragmatics: Relation between Signs, Designata, and Users R(S,D,U,), Semantics: Relation between Signs and Designata = R(S,D), Syntactics: Relation between Signs and other Signs = R(S,S').

And he said to me: "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life. He who conquers shall have this heritage and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Translation from A.

The third observation I have already revealed by grouping the above listed 31 elements in order to avoid repetition (cf. similar grouping in Hartman, 1983: 332-36). , from one point of view the account of a vision is a stylistic or formal characteristic, while from another perspective it certainly belongs to the group of contents. 21 From a semiotically and linguistically defined "communication-specific model of definition," this circumstance is in no way surprising, since pragmatics includes semantics and syntactics, and semantics includes syntactics as well:22 20 Such an arrangement of semes/noemes can preclude the "naturalistic fallacy" described by Olsson: 22.

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