The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)

Joanna Kopaczyk

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945153.001.0001

The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)

Joanna Kopaczyk

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Number of pages	337
ISBN (Print)	9780199945153
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945153.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2013

Publication series

Name	Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Publisher	Oxford University Press

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945153.001.0001

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2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Article

Long Lexical Bundles and Standardisation in Historical Legal Texts
Kopaczyk, J., 1 Jan 2012, In: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (SAP). 47, 2-3, p. 3-25
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Repetitive and therefore fixed? Lemmatic bundles and text-type standardisation in 15th-century administrative Scots
Kopaczyk, J., 2012, English Historical Linguistics 2008. Sauer, H. & Waxenberger, G. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 2. p. 189-208 (English Historical Linguistics 2008; vol. 324).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access
File
Multi-word Units of Meaning in 16th-century Legal Scots
Kopaczyk, J., 2009, Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches to English Historical Lexis. Cascadilla Press, 9 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access

7 Participation in conference
1 Invited talk

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 11
Kopaczyk, J. (Speaker)
Sept 2012
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Notaries and Clerks as a Discourse Community in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Kopaczyk, J. (Speaker)
Nov 2011
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
7th International conference on Medieval English
Kopaczyk, J. (Speaker)
Aug 2011
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

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The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)

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Research output

Long Lexical Bundles and Standardisation in Historical Legal Texts

Repetitive and therefore fixed? Lemmatic bundles and text-type standardisation in 15th-century administrative Scots

Multi-word Units of Meaning in 16th-century Legal Scots

Activities

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 11

Notaries and Clerks as a Discourse Community in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

7th International conference on Medieval English

Cite this