T. P. Rogozhnikova
pmtr@mail.ru
Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation
Stylistics of private and business correspondence of the 17th century:
initial set form
Abstract: The article examines the initial component of private-administrative correspondence as a transitional form
of a business type of literary language of the 17th century – the period of the formation of business writing standards
and the epistolary genre. The initial form is considered based on the material of the initial protocol of messages from the
A. I. Bezobrazov fund, reflecting a wide and socially diverse circle of communication, the multifaceted nature and
chronological extent of his activities. The object of the study is the initial structural elements of private-administrative
business texts from the specified fund in their functional orientation. The subject is the initial form with a typological
set of formulas and a system of their linguistic representatives, the communicative and pragmatic determinism of the
composition of formulas and the selection and organization of linguistic means. The material is studied in historical-stylistic
and communicative-pragmatic aspects. The features of the initial form are revealed depending on several factors: the
nature of the addressee and addressee, the purposes of these messages, etc. The lexical and grammatical variability in the
composition of the formulas of the initial form is demonstrated. The use of means based on the potential of the written
varieties of the period under consideration is determined by communicative-pragmatic and sociocultural circumstances
(the degree of closeness of communicants, family ties, subordination, dependence, etc.)
Keywords: language of the 17th century, private business correspondence, initial protocol.
Paper submitted: December 19, 2023.
For citation: Rogozhnikova T. P. (2024) Stylistics of private and business correspondence of the 17th century: initial set
form. Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 62–72. DOI: 10.57015/issn1998-5320.2024.18.1.6.
