The field of study: berestology -- The background: communicatively heterogeneous letters -- Research question -- Theory and methodology: pragmaphilology -- Case study I: imperative subjects -- Case study II: speech reporting -- Case study III: epistolary past tense -- Case study IV: assertive declarations -- Conclusions
Summary
A corpus of medieval Russian letters is investigated from a pragmatic angle, in order to identify linguistic parameters that demonstrate the development from orality to literacy in the communicative practices of the time
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