Z klasztornego archiwum - analiza pragmalingwistyczna siedemnastowiecznego Obiecadła duchownego

Abstract

The paper contains the analysis of a fragment of a seventeenth-century monument – a prayer book written by a nun-Carmelite. The selected part: Obiecadło duchowne... is a certain entity, and it stands out from the whole monument due to its form – Abecedarius. The article presents pragmalinguistic view on this text. From the described aspects, one can list: what the analyzed passage says about the sender and the recipient, what was the communication goal of the writer, what type of speech acts the text represents, what functionalities it includes, as well as how the text was formed in terms of language.