European and Russian Diplomatic Reports on a Changing Russia. Diplomatic Languages and Concepts as Indicators and Factors of Change and Knowledge Accumulation (c. 1680-1730.)

关于不断变化的俄罗斯的欧洲和俄罗斯外交报告。

• 批准号: 400665415
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Jan Kusber
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Osteuropäische Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/400665415?language=en
• 关键词: European; Russian; Diplomatic; Reports; Changing

With respect to the radical changes in politics, economy, society and culture the reign of Peter I was often described as revolutionary. As a consequence those profound changes also left their marks with regard to language and lexis, as indicated e.g. by borrowing new expressions for technical terms, administrative and nautical ones. By means of using material from Peter’s era in particular research has already pointed out that a possible semantic shift concerning the exact meaning of a term was the result of that process of borrowing and using of those expressions in a new cultural environment.Since Peter diplomatic contacts with western European countries intensified, especially with courts in the German Realm. The mutual interest grew, alliances were formed and dynastic marriages were celebrated. Alongside with the growing number of contacts and topics to be negotiated, the reporting done by diplomats also increased. Although research noticed the rising number of contacts and intensification of relations, the way the diplomatic staff wrote about relevant issues (and how they mutually perceived them and their counterparts), the diplomatic reporting, has not yet been systematically analyzed. These are the two starting points for the current project: recently published sources and new source material concerning the relations between the courts in St. Petersburg, Vienna, Holstein-Gottorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Brandenburg-Prussia and the electorate of Saxony, dating from a period of c. 1680-1730 (i. e. from the reign of Peter and his first successors), are to be analyzed systematically. By applying methods of the history of ideas and concepts (or “Begriffsgeschichte”) and approaches of historical semantics changes in the mutual perception and linguistic indicators of those processes at the Russian court also continuing in the times of Peter’s successors are to be identified.

谈到政治、经济、社会和文化的根本变化，彼得一世的统治经常被描述为革命性的。因此，这些深刻的变化也在语言和词汇方面留下了印记，例如，为技术术语、行政术语和航海术语借用了新的表达。通过使用彼得时代的材料，特别是研究已经指出，在新的文化环境中借用和使用这些表达的过程可能会导致一个术语的确切含义的语义转变。自彼得以来，与西欧国家的外交联系加强了，特别是与德意志王国的法院。双方的共同利益日益增长，结成了联盟，庆祝了王朝联姻。随着要谈判的接触和议题越来越多，外交官所做的报告也在增加。虽然研究注意到接触的增加和关系的加强，但外交工作人员撰写有关问题的方式（以及他们如何相互看待这些问题和他们的同行），外交报道，尚未得到系统的分析。这是当前项目的两个起点：最近出版的关于圣彼得堡、维也纳、荷尔斯泰因-戈托尔夫、梅克伦堡-施未林、勃兰登堡-普鲁士和萨克森选帝侯之间关系的来源和新来源材料，可追溯到1680-1730年（即从彼得及其第一任继任者统治时期），将被系统地分析。通过运用思想和概念史的方法（或“Begriffsgeschichte”）和历史语义学变化的方法，在相互感知和俄罗斯宫廷这些过程的语言指标中，这些过程在彼得的继任者时代也在继续，将被识别出来。