REPRESENTATION OF TIME IN HOUSEHOLD BOOKS OF THE 17TH CENTURY

The problem of time verbalisation is considered in the article within the study of the origins of economic text in German. The choice of textual material for diachronic study is controversial because it affects the evaluation of the norm and its variants, including regional ones. While the contemporary textual material has been described in detail and continues to be investigated, the study of economic texts in diachrony is hampered by the confusion of topics and the compilation tradition of specialised literature. A relatively homogeneous corpus of texts is represented by the household books of the 17th-18th centuries, which are united by their common thematic, content, structural and linguistic features into the genre Hausväterliteratur (“literature for house fathers”). The linguistic material in this article was taken from a manual written in the 17th century by the Jesuit author Christoph Fischer, who shares his own experience of land management and agriculture. The theme of time is given special attention in the book. The cyclical nature of economic processes, the systems used to calculate the duration of cycles, their succession and the points of beginning and end have led to a search for means of expressing temporal relations. The article presents the results of the analysis of means of verbalisation in the author's value system, text structure and description of economic processes. The article considers verb temporal forms as means of verbalising present, past and future tense. The functional-semantic approach was used as a method of research.