Evoluția limbajului diplomatic în context lingvistic

Abstract

Abstract: Diplomacy, which traces back to the remote antiquity, underwent through a long historical evolution and began to manifest itself widely with the onset of the early states. The main purpose of diplomacy is to strengthen the state it serves. It also strives to promote state interests in a positive and peaceful way. By diplomatic discourse, we understand the way in which a language is spoken by a group of diplomatic professionals. The diplomatic language is thus, an instrument of the diplomatic community aiming to shape the goals of international politics and mirrors the signature of a civilized nation. Diplomatic language can be considered the art of convincing, modelling and influencing the way a certain issue is perceived, being a language of conciliation rather than a language of revelation.

The present paper aims to investigate the diplomatic discourse in a linguistic context from the diachronic point of view, as the language and the communication strategies occupy an important aspect in the diplomatic discourse. It is well known that speech implies a selection of words made from the lexical storehouse, which the speaker and his addressee possess in common. Over the time, diplomatic language has evolved from a primal contextual culture, a peculiarity of the ancient world that is characterized by clear and direct communications, to an elevated contextual culture, a peculiarity of the contemporary world, which is characterized by implicit and indirect communications in which non-verbal and verbal way of expression are important factors. The diplomatic language is «the science/art of negotiation» which embraces the entire system of interests established between nations, aiming to maintain peace and good harmony between states. Thus, the diplomatic language becomes the emblem of a civilized nation.