A Framework For Discourse Analysis II - Paperback

by Thm Phd Wilbur N. Pickering (Author)

A PhD dissertation in Linguistics dealing with the nature of language, how it works, how we create a discourse, and how others interprete it. The five 'macrosystems' derive from five 'limitations' that are inherent in our human condition, because of what a human being is.

Author Biography

Wilbur N. Pickering is a Christian missionary living in Brasília, Brazil. He has a ThM and a PhD in Linguistics. Dr. Pickering joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1958. After three years of preparation for the field, he arrived in Brazil in 1961, where he and his wife began the translation work with the Apurinã people. In 1996 he resigned from Wycliffe to pursue other interests.