The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) /

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 ear...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kopaczyk, Joanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
To 1707
Law > Scotland > Language > History.
Scots language > To 1700.
LAW > Dictionaries & Terminology.
Law > Language
Politics and government
Scots language
Scotland > Politics and government > 1371-1707.
Écosse > Politique et gouvernement > 1371-1707.
Scotland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Scots as the language of the law
  • The language of legal texts
  • Exploring language of the past : context, discourse and text
  • Repetition, fixedness and lexical bundles
  • Burghs in Scottish history
  • Living in a burgh
  • Law and the burgh
  • EdHew corpus material and lexical bundles
  • The grammar of lexical bundles in early legal Scots
  • Binomials and multinomials in early legal scots
  • Short bundles: functional properties
  • Long bundles: functional properties and standardization.

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