La comunicazione diplomatica tra Istanbul e Venezia nel XV e XVI sec.: fenomeni di contatto interlinguistico e atteggiamenti pragmalinguistici

The diplomatic communication between Istanbul and Venice in the 15th and 16th cent.: interlinguistic contact and pragmalinguistic behaviour phenomena. Modern Mediterranean is a multicultural and multilingual environment where written communication shows a high variability. The present work aims at shedding light on a specific set of Greek documents dating from the 15th and 16th century and belonging to the collection Miscellanea Documenti Turchi of the Venetian State Archive. It proposes that, by analysing the lexical variability, the textual patterns and the pragmalinguistic features of such documents, their production can be explained within the framework of a text community which develops within a community of practice.