2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Socio-pragmatic Research on Early Modern German Documents-focusing on reformation period religious propagation materials
| Project/Area Number |
22520444
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Musashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
NITTA Haruo 武蔵大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00012443)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 言語学 / ドイツ語学 / 社会語用論 / 文書類型 / 民衆教化文書 / 近世ドイツ語 / 近世ドイツ / 宗教改革 |
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| Research Abstract |
There are various types of materials written in German with the aim of religious propagation, but they all are quite clearly colored by either catholic or protestant ideologies - differences that affect language strategy.
In contrast to Protestants, whose writing style was clear and had impact, addressed commoners, was syntactically simplistic, easily understood in speech as well as writing, and sometimes used colloquial expressions and/or proverbs, Catholic writers tended to be esoteric and address elite classes making use of rhetorical devices, complex syntactic structures, and sometimes quotations in Latin.
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Research Products
(9 results)
