Runeninschriften als Sprechakte? Vorüberlegungen zu einer pragmalinguistischen Untersuchung der Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark

Zimmermann, Christiane

doi:10.1515/9783110922981.434

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“…Yet the best explanation for the use of fabricant verbs in early runic magico‐religious inscriptions would appear to be that their appearance represents pragmatic emphasis; cf. Zimmermann (). Bracteate inscriptions of the non‐syntactic type like that found on the Vadstena amulet record orthographic demonstrations of magico‐religious runic dedication (runes … of the gods beknownst) whereas those of the fabricant style instead record the ritual performance of runic application – often without even going so far as to indicate how working such a text into a bracteate die was semiotically different than carving a maker's mark on a more workaday type of runic find.…”

Section: Runes As Dedicatorymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Giving’ and ‘Making’ in Early Runic Epigraphy

Mees

2012

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A survey of the early Germanic etymological semantics of ‘giving’ and ‘making’ is presented in light of the recent reaffirmation that early Nordic *taujan is etymologically related to Old Norse tœja ‘grant, bestow, help, assist’. Contextualising the early runic fabricatory and dedicatory inscriptions in terms of sociological, textual and anthropological theory, a new interpretation of early runic pragmatics is developed. The new approach to early runic performance proferred seeks to explain the broader function (and context) of epigraphic production, not merely the most logical reading of individual texts. The early runic pragmatics of ‘giving’ and ‘making’ are employed as an analytical frame in which to analyse the socio‐cultural as well as linguistic meaning of a series of both functionally and textually related, often significantly stylised Iron Age epigraphs found on a range of early Scandinavian media: runestones, moor finds and migration‐era amulets.

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Section: Runes As Dedicatorymentioning

confidence: 99%