29.1179, Books: Old Russian Birchbark Letters: Dekker

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:04:58
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Old Russian Birchbark Letters: Dekker

 


Title: Old Russian Birchbark Letters 
Subtitle: A Pragmatic Approach 
Series Title: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/35684 


Author: Simeon Dekker

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004362383 Pages: 220 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004362383 Pages: 220 Price: U.S. $ 119


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup


Written In: English  (eng)

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