Re-writing discourse features: speech acts in Heliand
Marina Buzzoni
Starting with a discussion about the standard approach to Heliand – an early ninth-century Old Saxon verse reworking of Gospel as provided by Ronald Murphy in 1989 and 1992, this paper seeks find out new path for interpretation poem far its communicative features are concerned. In order do so, linguistic philological analysis how authors re-wrote their direct indirect hypotexts will be carried out, paying particular attention information structure utterances. Furthermore, context from which springs i.e., broadly speaking, so-called “Carolingian culture thought” taken into consideration account choices made compilers. Finally, it argued that conveys orthodox Christian message, whose presence throughout whole has led us formulate hypotheses both use text composition audience.
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