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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simeon DekkerPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Edition: XX, 200 Pp. ed. Volume: 42 Weight: 0.475kg ISBN: 9789004362383ISBN 10: 900436238 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 22 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Index of Birchbark Letters 1 The Field of Study: Berestology 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Excavations 1.3 Dating and Chronology 1.4 Users and Uses of the Birchbark Letters 1.5 The Language: Old Novgorodian 1.6 Other Sources: Parchment Documents 1.7 Concluding Remarks 2 The Background: Communicatively Heterogeneous Letters 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Problem 2.3 Communicative Heterogeneity 2.4 The Oral Component 2.5 Evaluating Gippius (2004) 2.6 Subsequent Research 2.7 Discussion 3 Research Question 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Research Question 3.3 The Choice of Case Studies 3.4 Concluding Remarks 4 Theory and Methodology 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Philology 4.3 Pragmatics 4.4 Pragmaphilology 4.5 Orality 4.6 Use of the Corpus 4.7 Illustration of the Pragmaphilological Approach: One Case Study 5 Case Study I: Imperative Subjects 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Imperative Subjects 5.3 The Imperative Subject as a Cohesive Device 5.4 The Oral Component 5.5 Concluding Remarks 6 Case Study II: Speech Reporting 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Speech Reporting Strategies 6.3 Some Terminological Considerations 6.4 The Data on Birchbark 6.5 Diachronic Considerations 6.6 Speech Reporting Strategies on a Scale 6.7 Complexity and Context 6.8 Functional Considerations 6.9 Free Direct Speech Revisited 6.10 More Elements of Orality: Dictation and Performatives Type 6.11 Concluding Remarks 7 Case Study III: Epistolary Past Tense 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Birchbark Data and Discussion 7.3 Epistolary Past Tense in Other Languages 7.4 The Data on Birchbark Revisited 7.5 Deixis 7.6 Performatives 7.7 Ancient Greek Revisited 7.8 Concluding Remarks 8 Case Study IV: Assertive Declarations 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Theoretical Considerations 8.3 The Data on Birchbark 8.4 Other Languages 8.5 Discussion 8.6 Concluding Remarks 9 Conclusions 9.1 Introduction 9.2 General Lines Connecting the Case Studies 9.3 A Transitional Period of Verschriftlichung 9.4 Final Remarks References IndexReviewsDekker's 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-Universitat Salzburg in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019 """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" Author InformationSimeon Dekker, Ph.D. (Leiden University, 2016) is a researcher in Slavic philology. His main focus of research concerns the pragmatics of medieval texts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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