--- title: "Interaction in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Conversation-Analytic Approach — Patty 2026" description: "The full text is not in the library (embargoed); this card rests on the repository abstract, and its ideas are provisional." authors: ["Tyler Patty"] year: 2026 venue: "Apollo (University of Cambridge)" source: "https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.135624" doi: "10.17863/cam.135624" licence: "Open access (free to read); no CC licence stated — read only (Apollo (University of Cambridge))" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patty-2026-interaction-biblical-hebrew-narrative-conversation/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/patty-2026-interaction-biblical-hebrew-narrative-conversation/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/7/) / Interaction in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Conversation-Analytic Approach # Interaction in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Conversation-Analytic Approach **Authors:** Tyler Patty · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** PhD thesis, University of Cambridge (Apollo repository) **Link:** [repository.cam.ac.uk/items/aac07ba1-2170-401f-a043-eb6ad844f7ba](https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/aac07ba1-2170-401f-a043-eb6ad844f7ba) · **Licence:** free to read, no CC licence; full text embargoed until 2027-10 — summary only [**0** citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=cites:W7221105821) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 · [Apollo (University of Cambridge)](https://openalex.org/S4306401777) - [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.135624) - [PDF](https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/2132c35b-fe42-427c-b983-9d81dd562663/download) - [DOI 10.17863/cam.135624](https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.135624) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7221105821) **Authors (1)** 1. [Tyler Patty](https://openalex.org/A5025766188) h 1 · 1 citations · 2 works Citations and author metrics: OpenAlex, 2026-10-14; authors with the same name are not always told apart. ## What it is about The full text is not in the library (embargoed); this card rests on the repository abstract, and its ideas are provisional. The thesis applies Conversation Analysis to the dialogues of Biblical Hebrew narrative. Its claims: reading dialogue well needs competence in the conventions of conversation of the culture and the language; the reader should attend to how the narrator describes the speaking (the quotative frame); each turn should be read for what it is doing (its pragmatic aim) as well as for its form; and the meaning lies in sequences of turns (question and answer, request and compliance or refusal), not in single lines. ## Ideas - I2. Treat the quotative frame as data: record per quote the verb of saying (אָמַר, דִּבֶּר, עָנָה, קָרָא, צִוָּה), whether לֵאמֹר follows, and whether the addressee is named; then test whether עָנָה marks a second pair part more often than אָמַר. ## For Mova - I1. Give `prag` a sequence layer: for each quote, link it to the previous quote by a different speaker as its first pair part (question → answer, request → compliance/refusal, accusation → defence, offer → acceptance), and count the pair types in the Torah. A turn that does not fit its first pair part (an answer that is not an answer) is a marked turn worth a flag. I1 is an extension of the speech carrying already in `tools/macula/src/prag.rs` (quotes and speakers are cut there), with the tally in [languages/hbo/09-discourse.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/09-discourse/) (direct speech). I2 is a count on the Torah trees for `09-discourse.md` (direct speech and לֵאמֹר); see also the Miller-Naudé 2026 card on quotative frames. 📚 Shelves 2[Linguistics & languages · 4,876 works · 20,420.2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Ancient Hebrew · 226 works · 172.9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/hbo/) 🧭 Topics 2[Semitic languages · 1,334 works · 2,090.4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic · 438 works · 352.6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) ## Cite Cite as Tyler Patty. 2026. Interaction in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Conversation-Analytic Approach. Apollo (University of Cambridge). The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.17863/cam.135624](https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.135624) ```bibtex @inproceedings{patty2026interaction, title = {{Interaction in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Conversation-Analytic Approach}}, author = {Tyler Patty}, booktitle = {Apollo (University of Cambridge)}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.17863/cam.135624}, url = {https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.135624} } ``` - [← previous Integrating TEI, NER/NEL, Textometry, and Linked Data for a Semantically Enriched Interview Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stankovic-2026-integrating-tei-ner-nel-textometry/) - [next → Interlinear Glosses as a Multilingual Pivot for Machine Translation: An Updated Study on Turkish with Restricted Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ozer-2026-interlinear-glosses-as-multilingual-pivot/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/7/)