TY - BOOK ID - 3034232 TI - Inner Worlds : A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Book of Jonah PY - 2004 VL - 68 SN - 0391042157 9004494537 9780391042155 9789004494534 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Bible KW - Criticism, Narrative KW - 224.92 KW - Jona KW - 224.92 Jona KW - Bible. KW - Jonah (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Jonas (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Yonah (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, Narrative. KW - Semantic analysis KW - Semantics KW - Sentence analysis KW - Syntax KW - Semantic analysis. KW - Semantics. KW - Sentence analysis. KW - Syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3034232 AB - In the dynamic interchange between authors, texts, and readers that occurs during the reading process, readers are stimulated by the author to create complex inner representations of the reality presented in a text. The cognitive linguistic approach outlined in the first part of Inner Worlds offers a set of analytical tools that can be instructively applied to the book of Jonah to examine how the text presents its own reality to the reader. Retranslated with an eye to the distinct nuances in the Hebrew, the text of Jonah reveals a range of suggestive dynamic patterns that show the irony of Jonah's limited perspectives on his misfortunes compared with the transcendent perspective of a gracious God. ER -