Zur Notwendigkeit eines textsortendifferenzierten Herangehens an mittelalterliche Stadtbücher

Abstract

This article connects the existing results of the study of the language of the medieval city chancellery of Cracow, which was conducted without distinguishing individual entries into the text types they represent, with the results of the analysis of the language in testamentary records. Wills, as a type of text, appear in city records as a mass source. It seems that the previous claim as to an almost unconditional avoidance of dialectal features in the city registry must undergo some reconsideration depending not only on the producer of the text, but also the entire context of the communicative situation and the type of text that is the written product of a social activity. The analy-sis not only verifies previous assertions, but also draws attention to a new research perspective on medieval city books, which is worth applying to the selection of the research corpus. The author also refers to her earlier contributions in the field of the syntactic research on the medieval city chancellery.