Ahi atta, Trust Me: Pragmatics of Business Relations in the ICK4 Old Assyrian Corpus

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10421509" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10421509 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ahi atta, Trust Me: Pragmatics of Business Relations in the ICK4 Old Assyrian Corpus

Original language description

In this paper, problem solving in texts written by ancient Assyrian traders within the Assyrian Trade Network (20th - 18th centuries BCE) is studied. The core phrase, aḫī atta (&quot;you are my brother&quot;), together with possible variations, is investigated in terms of the contexts in which it appears in the ICK4 Old Assyrian corpus. The data suggests that at least within this corpus, the main function of the phrase is pragmatic and serves to establish an elevated level of mutual trust or increased attention in situations of special interest to the sender of the tablet.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG16P02M022" target="_blank" >DG16P02M022: Analysis, description and archivation of aggregate information on properties of cultural heritage artifacts and usage of such data in restoration, conservation and research</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Climb the Wall of Uruk... Essays in Honor of Petr Charvát

ISBN

978-80-261-0954-9

Number of pages of the result

9

Pages from-to

137-145

Number of pages of the book

163

Publisher name

Západočeská univerzita v Plzni

Place of publication

Plzeň

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