Dekker, Simeon (2018). Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics: Vol. 42. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Rodopi 10.1163/9789004353206
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)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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Book (Monograph) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
UniBE Contributor: |
Dekker, Simeon |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 490 Other languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 890 Other literatures |
ISSN: |
0169-0124 |
ISBN: |
978-90-04-36238-3 |
Series: |
Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics |
Publisher: |
Brill/Rodopi |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Simeon Dekker |
Date Deposited: |
09 May 2018 10:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:11 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1163/9789004353206 |
Additional Information: |
Rezensiert von Pavel V. Petrukhin (2019), Voprosy jazykoznanija 2019-4, 155-160. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
philology; historical pragmatics; orality; literacy; corpus linguistics; medieval; Slavic; epistolarity |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/112609 |
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