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<p>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.</p>
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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.

The Art of Dying: Making a Will in Old English and Its Sociolinguistic Context

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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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...

The Art of Dying: Making a Will in Old English and Its Sociolinguistic Context

Published Online: Jul 13, 2022

Page range: 109 - 129

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2022-0005

Keywords
Old English, wills, historical sociolinguistics, archive, gender, curses

© 2022 Olga Timofeeva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Art of Dying: Making a Will in Old English and Its Sociolinguistic Context

Published Online: Jul 13, 2022

Page range: 109 - 129

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2022-0005

KeywordsOld English, wills, historical sociolinguistics, archive, gender, curses

© 2022 Olga Timofeeva, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Old English, wills, historical sociolinguistics, archive, gender, curses