Published: 2024-09-05

Relationships between unequal communicative communities (in the 16th–18th centuries) on the basis of guild documents

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Abstract

This article has been devoted to the mechanisms of influencing superior communities on language behaviour in subordinate communities, as part of official, formal, including legal and legislative behaviour. The texts preserving these simple and complex speech acts were created in a small urban communicative community over a period of about two centuries. It refers to the creation, transfer, consolidation and modification of patterns of linguistic behaviour produced for the needs of the craftsmen’s community, exemplified by preserved official documents of the Krakow brewers’ guild from the 16th–18th centuries. The analysis was based on the theory of communicative communities and communicative needs. Selected lexis and phraseology as well as genre determinants of the preserved texts, conditioned by the socio-historical context, were subjected to observation. The conclusions from the analysis present a direct relationship between the hierarchy of the social structure and the text, genre and language of the preserved documents.

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Pałucka-Czerniak, I. M. (2024). Relationships between unequal communicative communities (in the 16th–18th centuries) on the basis of guild documents. Forum Lingwistyczne, 12(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2024.12.2.02

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-29


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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