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Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Reference Tracking: An Example

In my previous post about reference, I said that I’d return to the topic to give an example of the importance of reference analysis for biblical interpretation. I focus here on personal reference chains. Eggins (*Introduction to Systemic Functiona...

Reference Tracking

In SFL-based discourse analysis, *reference* refers to how writers or speakers introduce participants (i.e., people, places, things that act or are "talked about" in a text) and then tracks them as the text unfolds (cf. Eggins, *Introduction to Sy...

In case you missed it

I was invited to write a post for the Perspective Criticism blog a while back. If you missed it, you can find it here. Enjoy.