The Techniques of Influencing the Addressee in the Business Letters of Khan Ayuka on “Todo Bichig” (“Clear Letter”) and their Reflection in the Synchronized Russian Translations of the ­17th–18th Centuries. Part 2.

Introduction. Business letters addressed by the Kalmyk Khan (before 1690, taisha) Ayuka (1642–1724), written in todobichig (“clear letter”), are polythematic multifunctional texts that implement, among other things, informative and influencing functions. Since the influencing function is realized primarily in motives of varying degrees of categoricality (request, order, etc.) and tactics accompanying imperative subgen­res, the purpose of this work is to identify imperative subgenres and other tactics of speech influence on the addressee in business letters to todo beachig, to analyze the ways and means of expressing the identified influencing techniques, as well as their comparison with simulta­neous translations of the letters into Russian. Materials and methods. The source of the material were the letters of Taishi (Khan) The Ayuka, sent to the representatives of the central and regional Russian authorities from 1665 to 1714, and their simultaneous translations into Russian, stored in the collections of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts and the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia. For this work, only those letters from the specified period have been selected that have preserved a synchronized translation into Russian. Results. One of the main influencing techniques is the tactics of substantiating the reasons for the incentive in the preceding or the subsequent context. The context preceding the imperative is noticeably narrowed; in a number of letters, the tactics of substantiating the request or order are absent. There is an increase in examples of using the subsequent context, indicating not only the need for the subject of the request, but also possible undesirable consequences in the event of non-fulfillment of the incentive. The influencing potential of incentive in business letters is enhanced by the use of self-names of imperative subgenres and performative verbs that specify the intention of the addresser. Synchronous Russian translation conveys the main intentions of the addresser, but the number of requests in the original and translation may not match, as may the means of expressing the incentive.

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