Bøger af Ioan-Beniamin Pop

'Studies in Adverbs. Encounters in the Written Register of News and the Bible Books' challenges the notion of adverbs as marginalized elements within sentences. In the domain of persuasive writing, where trust may be inherently fragile, adverbs play a pivotal role in engendering a sense of credibility and authority, assuming a pivotal role in shaping discourse by emphasizing evidence, imparting authority, and influencing reader perceptions. The book investigates the pragmatic functions of adverbs, focusing on their distinctive patterns in not only tabloid and traditional journalistic formats, but also in the books of the Bible. While acknowledging the Bible's distinct nature as a literary and religious text, the author bridges the realms of linguistics and biblical scholarship, revealing how the strategic placement of adverbs within the gospels and other books may encode subtle layers.

'The Role of Adverbs in Text Construction' delves into the profound realm of adverbs and investigates how these linguistic elements transcend mere words, elevating discourse to captivating narratives. There appears to be a general agreement of opinion among grammarians that the most heterogeneous, and at the same time the least understood of the traditional parts-of-speech is, without any question, the category of ¿adverb¿. It has been equated, at times, to a dustbin into which any word whose grammatical status is not clear and which is not easily handled elsewhere in the grammar has been discarded. Adverbs, even though not as frequently employed in a sentence as verbs or nouns are, should not, for that matter, be cast aside as unimportant in the string of elements making up the sentence, as they play an essential role in text construction. Writers, in order to heighten the dramatic effect of description or assess the truthfulness of actions or comments, as well as their validity in the face of reality, instinctively use adverbs.