Mark's memory resources and the controversy stories (Mark 2:1-3:6)

This book is to study the New Testament from the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark procuded in oral-aural cultures may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and a thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assmptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark's ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory(cognitive) resources; and so the cogntive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated in terms of cognitive processing.