Crafting Legal Language: Four or Five in the Mishnah and the Tosefta
Using the insights of neo-Gricean pragmatics, this paper analyzes the phrase four or five, with the meaning “a few,” in the Mishnah and the Tosefta. The different usages of the phrase in the two corpora support the view that the Mishnah is a more carefully crafted corpus, and more self-consciously d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2008
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2008, Volume: 98, Issue: 3, Pages: 289-304 |
| Further subjects: | B
Law
B Language B Mishnah B Legal B Pragmatics B Tosefta |
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| Summary: | Using the insights of neo-Gricean pragmatics, this paper analyzes the phrase four or five, with the meaning “a few,” in the Mishnah and the Tosefta. The different usages of the phrase in the two corpora support the view that the Mishnah is a more carefully crafted corpus, and more self-consciously directed toward application, than the Tosefta. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.0.0006 |