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The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs - Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560) (Hardcover)
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The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs - Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560) (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Language and Law
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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.
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