The Art of Dying: Making a Will in Old English and Its Sociolinguistic Context
This paper explores the potential of legal documents for the study of the sociology of Old English. It gives a rationale for the use of legal genres, or charters, and introduces research databases and tools that may elucidate the interconnections between practitioners of legal Old English and their...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022-01-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2022-0005 |
| Summary: | This paper explores the potential of legal documents for the study of the sociology of Old English. It gives a rationale for the use of legal genres, or charters, and introduces research databases and tools that may elucidate the interconnections between practitioners of legal Old English and their linguistic practices. A series of short case studies on wills illustrates what legal genres tell us about the correlation between linguistic variation, supralocalisation, and change and such variables as archive and gender. |
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| ISSN: | 0081-6272 2082-5102 |