The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language Means

The article focuses on the study of the language of the Maritime Charter of 1720 that was one of the key legislative acts, which enabled the development and consolidation of the new methods of combining heterogeneous linguistic means. The applied methods aimed at implementation of certain c...

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Main Author: Svetlana Rusanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Volgograd State University 2022-12-01
Series:Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie
Online Access:https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/component/attachments/download/2676
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description The article focuses on the study of the language of the Maritime Charter of 1720 that was one of the key legislative acts, which enabled the development and consolidation of the new methods of combining heterogeneous linguistic means. The applied methods aimed at implementation of certain communicative tasks. The correlation between the variety of language means and techniques with argumentativeness, imperativeness and impact of the text has been proved. The research touches upon the issues of special vocabulary and the ways of including it in the language of the Charter. The proposed methods of interpreting new terms range from synonymous substitutions to encyclopedic definitions. The tendency to functional differentiation of the means of expressing imperativeness and the modality of duty in particular has been revealed. Western European legal documentation tradition is noted to have influenced the formation of the wide range of modal means. However, the Russian legislators tried to take into account the pragmatic needs of official business communication and the semantic and stylistic potential of competing lexical modifiers of modality. The research has resulted in the discovery of the peculiarity, which acquired the linguistic explication in the text of the Charter. Namely, it is the conceptually important attitude of legislators not only to the external side of performing the duties and enforcing the order, but also its internal motivation based on the moral foundation.
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spelling doaj.art-036bde25e8c24f2c97a7a47a44395f512023-06-25T20:08:35ZengVolgograd State UniversityVestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie1998-99112022-12-016889910.15688/jvolsu2.2022.6.7The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language MeansSvetlana Rusanovahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3451-6892 The article focuses on the study of the language of the Maritime Charter of 1720 that was one of the key legislative acts, which enabled the development and consolidation of the new methods of combining heterogeneous linguistic means. The applied methods aimed at implementation of certain communicative tasks. The correlation between the variety of language means and techniques with argumentativeness, imperativeness and impact of the text has been proved. The research touches upon the issues of special vocabulary and the ways of including it in the language of the Charter. The proposed methods of interpreting new terms range from synonymous substitutions to encyclopedic definitions. The tendency to functional differentiation of the means of expressing imperativeness and the modality of duty in particular has been revealed. Western European legal documentation tradition is noted to have influenced the formation of the wide range of modal means. However, the Russian legislators tried to take into account the pragmatic needs of official business communication and the semantic and stylistic potential of competing lexical modifiers of modality. The research has resulted in the discovery of the peculiarity, which acquired the linguistic explication in the text of the Charter. Namely, it is the conceptually important attitude of legislators not only to the external side of performing the duties and enforcing the order, but also its internal motivation based on the moral foundation.https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/component/attachments/download/2676
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The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language Means
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title The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language Means
title_full The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language Means
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title_short The Maritime Charter of 1720: Functional-and-Communicative Conditionality of Language Means
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