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The art of dying: Making a will in Old English and its sociolinguistic context

Timofeeva, Olga (2022). The art of dying: Making a will in Old English and its sociolinguistic context. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 57(1):109-129.

Abstract

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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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > English Department
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:820 English & Old English literatures
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Social Sciences & Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory
Language:English
Date:2022
Deposited On:05 Aug 2022 17:36
Last Modified:20 Dec 2024 04:30
Publisher:Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
ISSN:0081-6272
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2022-0005
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