Sphere of Subject of Regional Documents of 18^th Century: Dynamical Aspect

• Main Author: E. M. Sheptukhina
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Tsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektov 2017-01-01
• Series: Научный диалог
• Subjects: russian language; history of business language; text; subject of the text; regional documents; province of the don cossack host
• Online Access: https://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/272
• ISSN: 2225-756X; 2227-1295

The results of a comparative analysis of ways of representation the text subject sphere in the documents on a single genre are presented. The research materials are the military charters of the middle and the end of the 18th century, which are kept in the Fund “Mikhaylovskiy stanichnyy ataman” of the State archive of Volgograd region. Similarities and differences in the expression of text subject in the charters of different time slices are established. It is shown that the similarity is manifested in the naming of “collective” subject by lexical units designating officials and indicating his name and status, population of persons and their status, in using linguistic means forming the imperative tone of the document. It is argued that the differences are related to the use of performatives and verbal forms of the past tense, indicating the legal actions of the subject of the text, the personal and possessive pronouns, lexical units that name the institution that performs certain managerial functions, names of places, localizing the subject of the text. It is revealed that changes in the composition and usage of language means, which reveal the subject of military charters, reflect opposite tendencies - to the individualization of the subject and the objectivity of the document text that are caused by the development of the administrative governance within the Province of the Don Cossack Host and by the formation of new functional paradigm of the Russian language.