Expect the Unexpected: Aspects of Pragmatic Foregrounding in Old Testament Narratives

1. THE CONCEPT OF FOREGROUNDING                     
    1.1 The Many Facets of Foregrounding               
    1.2 Overview of the Work                       

2. A SHORT HISTORY OF PRAGMATIC FOREGROUNDING   
    2.1 Shklovsky and the Russian Formalists                   
    2.2. The Prague School                           
    2.3 British Stylistics                       
    2.4 Empirical Studies                               
    2.5 Summary                                   
    2.6 The Approach Followed in This Work                   
       
3. SCHEMA THEORY                               
    3.1 A Short History of the Concept of \'Schema\'               
    3.2 Other Terms: Frame, Scenario and Script               
    3.3 Schank and Abelson\'s Version of Schema Theory (1977)       
    3.4. Further Developments in Schema Theory               
    3.5 Evidence for Schemata                           
    3.6 Criticism Levelled at Schema Theory                   
    3.7 Schemata and Foregrounding                           
    3.8 Schemata and Culture                           

4. SCHEMATA AND FOREGROUNDING IN OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES                       
    4.1 Schema Theory and the Old Testament                   
    4.2 Frames                                   
    4.3 Schemata                                   
    4.4 Scripts                                   
    4.5 Plans                                   
    4.6 Goals                                   
    4.7 Themes                                           
    4.8 Conclusions                                     

5 Evaluation in Narrative
6 Evaluation in Old Testament Narratives
7 The Historic Present: A Cross-Linguistic Survey
8 Yiqṭōl as the Historic Present in Biblical Hebrew
9 Qōṭēl as the Historic Present in Biblical Hebrew
10 Wĕhinnēh + NP + X as Represented Perception in Biblical Hebrew
11 Summary and General Conclusions