The Model of a Medieval German Invocation Text
This article describes a common model of medieval German invocations and its blocks. At present this type of medieval text remains insufficiently explored, and papers on the subject area are mostly written by foreign scholars, for whom the main criterion for the text model is its content and the predominant type of speech act in it. However, the semantic approach to the analysis does not make it possible to research the invocating tradition in its totality and to describe its principles, canons of compiling invocations. The model proposed in this work results from inner text structure investigations. The structural approach used by researches of this type of the text makes it possible to describe principles of compilation and meanings of the concrete block in the invocating tradition. Each of three blocks in the model has its own pragmatic meaning, linguistic peculiarities and characteristics, which make possible to present quite a new view at the analysis of medieval German invocations.