Roth Theresa. Religiöse Kommunikation im Umbrischen und Hethitischen. Fachsprachlichkeit in Ritualtexten und Gebeten

Brill, 2021. — 723 p. — (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 23).This monograph contributes substantially to the identification and description of the communicative and textual parameters which characterize ritual language as a language for special purposes. The interdisciplinary approach used by the author is methodologically innovative within the field of historical linguistics. By examining the functional and communicative contexts of ritual and religious texts from Hittite and Umbrian, Theresa Roth demonstrates how current questions of pragmatics and research on languages for special purposes can be successfully transferred to ancient languages.