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Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, cartea 42

Autor Simeon Dekker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2018
This study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of everyday life in medieval Russian society. In this study, the birchbark letters are addressed from a pragmatic angle. Linguistic parameters are identified that shed light on the degree to which literacy had gained ground in communicative processes. It is demonstrated that the birchbark letters occupy an intermediate position between orality and literacy. On the one hand, oral habits of communication persisted, as reflected in how the birchbark letters are phrased; on the other hand, literate modes of expression emerged, as seen in the development of normative conventions and literate formulae.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004362383
ISBN-10: 900436238X
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics


Cuprins

PrefaceList of AbbreviationsList of TablesList of FiguresIndex of Birchbark Letters1 The Field of Study: Berestology1.1Introduction1.2Excavations1.3Dating and Chronology1.4Users and Uses of the Birchbark Letters1.5The Language: Old Novgorodian1.6Other Sources: Parchment Documents1.7Concluding Remarks2 The Background: Communicatively Heterogeneous Letters2.1Introduction2.2The Problem2.3Communicative Heterogeneity2.4The Oral Component2.5Evaluating Gippius (2004)2.6Subsequent Research2.7Discussion3 Research Question3.1Introduction3.2Research Question3.3The Choice of Case Studies3.4Concluding Remarks4 Theory and Methodology4.1Introduction4.2Philology4.3Pragmatics4.4Pragmaphilology4.5Orality4.6Use of the Corpus4.7Illustration of the Pragmaphilological Approach: One Case Study5 Case Study I: Imperative Subjects5.1Introduction5.2Imperative Subjects5.3The Imperative Subject as a Cohesive Device5.4The Oral Component5.5Concluding Remarks6 Case Study II: Speech Reporting6.1Introduction6.2Speech Reporting Strategies6.3Some Terminological Considerations6.4The Data on Birchbark6.5Diachronic Considerations6.6Speech Reporting Strategies on a Scale6.7Complexity and Context6.8Functional Considerations6.9Free Direct Speech Revisited6.10More Elements of Orality: Dictation and Performatives Type6.11Concluding Remarks7 Case Study III: Epistolary Past Tense7.1Introduction7.2Birchbark Data and Discussion7.3Epistolary Past Tense in Other Languages7.4The Data on Birchbark Revisited7.5Deixis7.6Performatives7.7Ancient Greek Revisited7.8Concluding Remarks8 Case Study IV: Assertive Declarations8.1Introduction8.2Theoretical Considerations8.3The Data on Birchbark8.4Other Languages8.5Discussion8.6Concluding Remarks9 Conclusions9.1Introduction9.2General Lines Connecting the Case Studies9.3A Transitional Period of Verschriftlichung9.4Final RemarksReferencesIndex

Notă biografică

Simeon Dekker, Ph.D. (Leiden University, 2016) is a researcher in Slavic philology. His main focus of research concerns the pragmatics of medieval texts.

Recenzii

"Dekkerʼs book is a very welcome contribution to the field of historical pragmatics and an important step towards a comprehensive account of the pragmatics of the Old Russian birchbark letters."
-Imke Mendoza, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019