Gospel of John and the Sociology of Light

This provocative study of the language of the Fourth Gospel pursues the complicated but intriguing thesis that the Gospel's language is a blend of everyday, ordinary language and a "e;special language"e; suitable to the Johannine community. This "e;special language"e; transforms the ordinary language in a way that makes it into an anti-language. The oppositional character of the language, then, fu...