
The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs
Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
Joanna Kopaczyk(Autor*in)
Oxford University Press Inc
Erschienen am 12. September 2013
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Hardcover
368 Seiten
978-0-19-994515-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts. The book's focus is on legal language in Scotland, where law--with its own nomenclature and its own repertoire of discourse features--was shaped and marked by the concomitant standardizing of the vernacular language, Scots, a sister language to the English of the day.
Joanna Kopaczyk's study is based on a unique combination of two methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich socio-historical background of legal discourse in medieval and early modern Scottish burghs, Kopaczyk traces the links between orality, community, and law, which are reflected in discourse features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative texts. In this context, the book also revisits important ingredients of legal language, such as binomials or performatives. Kopaczyk's study is grounded in the functional approach to language and pays particular attention to referential, interpersonal, and textual functions of lexical bundles in the texts. It also establishes a connection between the structure and function of the recurrent patterns, and paves the way for the employment of new methodologies in historical discourse analysis.
Joanna Kopaczyk's study is based on a unique combination of two methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich socio-historical background of legal discourse in medieval and early modern Scottish burghs, Kopaczyk traces the links between orality, community, and law, which are reflected in discourse features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative texts. In this context, the book also revisits important ingredients of legal language, such as binomials or performatives. Kopaczyk's study is grounded in the functional approach to language and pays particular attention to referential, interpersonal, and textual functions of lexical bundles in the texts. It also establishes a connection between the structure and function of the recurrent patterns, and paves the way for the employment of new methodologies in historical discourse analysis.
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Englisch
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New York
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15 b&w line drawings
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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764 gr
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978-0-19-994515-3 (9780199945153)
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Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
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Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
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Joanna Kopaczyk (Ph.D. Poznan, Poland, 2002) studies historical texts in context. She combines corpus linguistics with historical discourse analysis, especially in the study of specialized discourse in Scotland and England. She has delivered invited talks at linguistic departments in Poland, Germany, Finland and the UK, and presented her research at over thirty international conferences in the USA, Europe, and Australia, as well as in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including a monograph on a Middle Scots dialect (2004).
Autor*in
Assistant Professor of History of EnglishAssistant Professor of History of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
Inhalt
List of abbreviations ; List of maps ; List of figures ; List of tables ; Chapter 1. Introduction: Scots as the language of the law ; Part One: The language ; Chapter 2. The language of legal texts ; Chapter 3. Exploring language of the past: Context, discourse and text ; Chapter 4. Repetition, fixedness and lexical bundles ; Part Two: The burghs ; Chapter 5. Burghs in Scottish history ; Chapter 6. Living in a burgh ; Chapter 7. Law and the burgh ; Part Three: The legal language of the burghs ; Chapter 8. EdHeW corpus material and lexical bundles ; Chapter 9. The grammar of lexical bundles in early legal Scots ; Chapter 10. Binomials and multinomials in early legal Scots ; Chapter 11. Short bundles: functional properties ; Chapter 12. Long bundles: Functional properties and standardization ; References ; Index