The observed distinctive features of the Old Believers’ Sinodik from Wojnowo enable one to see it as part of religious discourse, i.e. the whole body of the spoken and written texts constituting this type of communication. On the basis of the text of Sinodik and its extralinguistic factors (concept, objective, strategy, participants of communication, precedented texts, precedented phenomena) a distinct type of religious discourse was educed – the discourse of ‘поминовение’. Including the extralinguistic features of the text in its analysis will allow of broadened and more precise interpretation of the analyzed text.
The article is a review of four volumes from the remaining collection of volumes in the Old Believers’ monastery in Wojnowo. The author established their place of publication on the basis of the analysis of omaments, primarily book ends, as well as comparing them with the Catalogue of ornaments from L. Grebnev’s printing house published on the Internet. 11
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