From the Archives of the Monastery: The Pragmalinguistic Analysis of the Seventeenth - Century "Obiecadło duchowne" (Spiritual Alphabet) Cover Image

Z klasztornego archiwum – analiza pragmalingwistyczna siedemnastowiecznego "Obiecadła duchownego"
From the Archives of the Monastery: The Pragmalinguistic Analysis of the Seventeenth - Century "Obiecadło duchowne" (Spiritual Alphabet)

Author(s): Ewa Zmuda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: religious language; prayer books language; seventeenth-century Polish language; biblical allusions; pragmalinguistics; speech act;

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains the analysis of a fragment of a seventeenth-century monument – a prayer book written by a nun-Carmelite. The selected part: Obiecadło duchowne...is a certain entity, and it stands out from the whole monument due to its form – Abecedarius. The article presents pragmalinguistic view on this text. From the described aspects, onecan list: what the analyzed passage says about the sender and the recipient, what was the communication goal of the writer, what type of speech acts the text represents, what functionalities it includes, as well as how the text was formed in terms of language.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 94-113
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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