Joanna Kopaczyk

Legal Language of Scottish Burghs

Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780199945153
• ISBN-10: 0199945152
• Artikelnr.: 47868548

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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