On the Private and Official German Written Correspondence in the Second Half of the 18th Century, Presented on the Basis of the Documents in the Personal Archive Fund of Jan Nepomuk Rudolf Count Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín (1748-1824). A Comparative Study from the Historiolinguistic Point of View.

The subject of the submitted diploma thesis is the analysis of received and sent correspondence, comprising 257 letters connected with the person of Johann Nepomuk Rudolph Chotek (1748-1824) between the years 1792-1805, which is stored partly in the State Regional Archive in Prague (Státní oblastní archiv v Praze), and partly in the Austrian State Archive (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv) in Vienna. The introduction to the thesis outlines the political and social aspects of the given period in the context of Count Chotek's private and professional life. The analysis itself compares three groups of letters (98 received official, 116 received private, and 43 sent official) from the perspective of text construction (deviations and conformities with a model letter) and from the perspective of the linguistic devices used for individual parts of the structure (to what extent they were fixed or influenced by the individuality of the writer). The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the historiolinguistic research of correspondence and the German language in Bohemia at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.