Authors’ names:
- Andrey V. Ivanov – Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Rimma A. Ivanova – Nizhny Novgorod Institute of the Education Development
Abstract:
The article examines the scientific and pedagogical heritage of Jacob Rodde (1723 / 1725 – 1789), a linguist and teacher of German origin, the author of the textbook Russische Sprachlehre (1773) and several Russian-German dictionaries. Rodde’s textbook was the third, after the grammars of V. Ye. Adodurov and M. V. Lomonosov, in a series of textbooks on Russian grammar written in German for the German-speaking reader. The aim of the present research is to study the metalinguistic means used by Rodde in creating the textbook, as well as the methods of organizing and representing phonetic and graphic material in comparison with similar material presented in the grammars of Adodurov and Lomonosov. Particular attention is paid to the author’s didactic methods, revealing his approaches to teaching Russian phonetics and graphics to foreigners. The relevance of the study is determined by insufficient attention paid by scholars to the methods and means of describing the graphic and phonetic structure of the Russian language, implemented by Rodde in the textbook Russische Sprachlehre, especially if one takes into account its target audience. The study uses the method of historical-linguistic analysis, as well as that of comparative analysis of texts and metalinguistic means used by the authors of Russian grammars for foreigners. The study concludes that the main qualitative feature that distinguishes Rodde’s grammar from the grammars published in the 18th century is its practice-oriented focus. Rodde does not base his description of the phonetic structure of Russian on strict classification features of Russian sounds, but seeks to teach the foreign reader to pronounce them correctly based on the pronunciation skills acquired since childhood and the positions of articulatory organs characteristic of speech in their native language. The use of Latin terminology as a metalinguistic means seems typical for this type of educational linguistic works, which indicates a fairly weak development and an insufficient degree of conventionalizing native-language linguistics terminology in the 18th century.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2025-71-3-37-55 |
| Downloads | 353 |
| Key words | Jacob Rodde; Russian grammar; phonetics; means of graphics; linguistic terminology; didactic techniques; historical-linguistic analysis |