Rhetorik in der Patriarchatskanzlei von Konstantinopel.

Gastgeber, Christian

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“…In these cases the registered text is the only existing version as no separate document was issued by the chancellery; to this group belong the confessions of faith and the promises of moral improvement (Mitsiou and Preiser-Kapeller 2010;Gastgeber 2016). The documents owe their preservation to chance since the two manuscripts were part of the bulk of Greek manuscripts the Austrian ambassador at the sultan's court, Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, purchased in Constantinople during his diplomatic journeys in the 16 th c. in order to "rescue" the Greek cultural heritage for the West and increase the Greek stock of the Emperor's court library in Vienna (Kresten and Sturm-Schnabl 1983;Kresten 1991;Gastgeber 2008).…”

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Aspects of variations in Byzantine Greek Documents of the patriarchal chancellery of Constantinople (14th c.)

Gastgeber¹

2017

Open Linguistics

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A unique collection of about 900 Greek documents, issued by the chancellery of the Patriarch of Constantinople in the 14 th c., provides insight into the linguistic level at one place in the capital of the Byzantine Empire. So far research focussed nearly exclusively on their historical or juristic interpretation, the big data for historical sociolinguistics -a general desideratum for Byzantine literature (Hinterberger 2015) -were not taken into account, only some text pragmatic aspects and the use of spoken Greek elements in letters sent abroad were addressed in studies and did unfortunately not entail further investigation. This article focusses on a sociolinguistic point of view and outlines two aspects of variations: a) in order to meet the addressee's linguistic level and b) to "exclude" the addressee from the learned community (see also Hickey 2012). Three case studies exemplify the emphasis that is put on the intentional use of linguistic variations even in a chancellery with more or less rigid forms.

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