New Rhetoric

The essays in this book examine the place of digital communications or "rhetoric" in modern culture. They suggest that, like the printing revolution before it, the internet is shaping tectonic cultural movement, but is currently caught between traditional technocratic ways of thinking, and the more unpredictable terrain of human behaviour.

In Paul's Language of Ζῆλος, Benjamin Lappenga harnesses linguistic insights recently formulated within the framework of relevance theory to argue that within the letters of Paul (specifically Galatians, 1-2 Corinthians, and Romans), the ζῆλος word group is monosemic.