Text grammar and early Modern German texts from Czech and Slovak archives (Urbar, statute, hymn): analysis and attempt of didactization Cover Image

Textgrammatik und frühneuhochdeutsche Gebrauchstexte aus tschechischen und slowakischen Archiven (Urbar, Satzung, Kirchenlied): Analyse und Versuch der Didaktisierung
Text grammar and early Modern German texts from Czech and Slovak archives (Urbar, statute, hymn): analysis and attempt of didactization

Author(s): Albrecht Greule
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, 15th Century, 16th Century
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: Language history; historical text grammar; subject didactics; cadastral linguistics; hymnology;

Summary/Abstract: Three Early New High German texts which originated in the Czech Republic (Bohemia and Moravia) and Slovakia are analyzed from a text-grammatical point of view. In this way there follows a description of how in these texts of the 15th and 16th centuries, which belong to different text classes, text coherence was made understandable for the recipient and how he was enabled to grasp the subject of the text. In the analysis two strategies are used for this central issue: the statement of the central text objects by the clarification of co-reference chains and the statement of isotopy-levels by the extraction of semantic features. From the combination of these central text objects and the isotopy-levels the subject of the texts can be classified. In this paper tips have been incorporated how text-grammatical analysis can be used in language history lessons.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 75
  • Page Range: 29-44
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: German