ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
To the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great |
Rusanova S. V. | Novosibirsk State Technical University |
Keywords: history of Russian literary language mandative language international legal document Slavonic-written (Church Slavonic) language means |
Summary: The article is devoted to the problem of “Slavicisation” of business writing as a key process during the
development of the new type of business language. The focus is on the international legal documents of the second half
of the XVII century which have been linguistically poorly-studied yet. The language of such documents is distinguished
by a combination of mandative and Slavonic-written elements that obey the communicative and stylistic attitudes of the
writers. The article has expressed the idea that the international legal documents take a special position among the texts
created in the standard and non-standard mandative language. Representing official legal documents, such acts should
have been drawn up by means of the standard mandative language. However, in reality, they contain some Church
Slavonic elements which are non-standard for them. It seems significant to have discovered the Church Slavonic
elements in a thematically and genre-limited group of official documents within the mandative tradition. It helps to clarify the ways of appearance of Church Slavonic means in the official business language of Peter the Great period and also the mechanisms of their adaptation in the new linguistic space of state communication. |
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