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The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) / Joanna Kopaczyk
- Author
- Kopaczyk, Joanna
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Scots as the Language of the Law -- 1.1.Language, Law, and History: The Scottish Dimension -- 1.2.The Aims of the Book -- 1.3.Interdisciplinary Investigation -- 1.4.Scots: A Standardizing Vernacular -- 1.5.Overview of the Chapters -- pt. ONE The Language -- 2.The Language of Legal Texts -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.The Terminological Maze -- 2.3.Law and Language: Creation and Transmission -- 2.4.Characteristics of Legal Discourse -- 3.Exploring Language of the Past: Context, Discourse, and Text -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Language Use and Context -- 3.3.Discourse and Text in a Functional Perspective -- 3.4.Genre and Text Type -- 3.5.Standardization in Discourse -- 3.6.Networks and Communities -- 3.7.Discourse of the Past: Corpus Approaches -- 4.Repetition, Fixedness, and Lexical Bundles -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Repetition and Fixedness in Language -- 4.3.Multi-Word Units and Prefabs -- 4.4.Lexical Bundles -- 4.5.Binomials and Multinomials: A Feature of Legal Language -- pt. One Summary and Conclusions -- pt. TWO The Burghs -- 5.Burghs in Scottish History -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Before the Burghs -- 5.3.The Development of Urban Centres in Scotland -- 5.4.Scotland and the Burghs (1380-1560) -- 5.5.The Country Divided: Highlands and Lowlands -- 5.6.History and Identity through Language and Law -- 6.Living In a Burgh -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.A General Outlook -- 6.3.People of the Burgh -- 6.4.Burgh Economy -- 6.5.Contacts between Burghs -- 7.Law and the Burgh -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.A Historical Overview of Law in Scotland -- 7.3.Law and Order in the Burghs -- 7.4.Men of Law -- 7.5.Legal Records -- pt. Two Summary and Conclusions -- pt. THREE The Legal Language of the Burghs -- 8.EdHeW Corpus Material and Lexical Bundles -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Corpora Characteristics -- 8.3.Lexical Bundles: A New Methodology in Historical Linguistics -- 8.4.Preparing the Data: Artificial Standardization of Spelling -- 8.5.Extracting Lexical Bundles -- 9.The Grammar of Lexical Bundles in Early Legal Scots -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Noun Phrase Fragments -- 9.3.Prepositional Phrase Fragments -- 9.4.Verb Phrase Fragments -- 9.5.Clause Fragments -- 9.6.Conclusions: Structural Properties of Lexical Bundles in Early Legal Scots -- 10.Binomials and Multinomials In Early Legal Scots -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.Binomials -- 10.3.Multinomials -- 10.4.Conclusions: Binomials and Multinomials in Early Legal Scots -- 11.Short Bundles: Functional Properties -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Functional Classification -- 11.3.Short Bundle Functions in EdHeW -- 11.4.Conclusions: Short Bundles in Context -- 12.Long Bundles: Functional Properties and Standardization -- 12.1.Standardization Triggers and Long Formulaic Bundles -- 12.2.Emergent Standardizing Patterns: The Diachronic Dimension -- 12.3.Emergent Standardizing Patterns: The Diatopic Dimension -- 12.4.Symptoms of Textual Standardization -- pt. Three General Conclusions.
- Summary
- This study offers 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, this monograph traces the links between orality, literacy, and law, which are reflected in discourse features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative texts.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199345939 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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