<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">In this paper we introduce the research plan for the preparation of a searchable electronic repository of the earliest extant legal oaths from medieval Poland drawing on the expertise in historical corpus-building developed for the history of English. The oaths survive in the overwhelmingly Latin land books from the period between 1386 and 1446 for six localities Greater Poland, in which the land courts operated: Poznań, Kościan, Pyzdry, Gniezno, Konin and Kalisz. A diplomatic edition of the oaths was published in five volumes by Polish historical linguists (Kowalewicz &amp; Kuraszkiewicz 1959–1966). The edition is the only comprehensive resource of considerable scope (over 6300 oaths from the years 1386–1446) for the study of the earliest attestations of the Polish language beyond glosses. Recognising some limitations, but most of all its unparalleled coverage of the coexistence of Latin and the vernacular, the ROThA project embarks on transforming the edition into an open up-to-date digital resource. We thus aim to facilitate research into the history of Polish and Latin as well as of the legal system and the related social and linguistic issues of the period.</abstract>

Joanna Kopaczyk – Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh

Matylda Włodarczyk – Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Elżbieta Adamczyk – Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and University of Wuppertal.

Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper explores the dynamics of the textual-visual interface of a medieval manuscript page within the frameworks of historical pragmatics and pragmaphilological approaches to the study of historical texts. Whilst the former focuses on the contexts in which historical utterances, manifested as texts, occur (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_004_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b3Aa">Jacobs &amp; Jucker 1995: 11</xref>), the latter involves a context-based perspective in the study of individual historical texts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_005_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b4Aa">Jucker 2000: 91</xref>). Combining the two approaches allows for a more comprehensive study of the “visual text” (cf. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_007_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b6Aa">Machan 2011</xref>) than has been possible for paleographic, codicological, or linguistic analyses of medieval manuscripts. The present paper adopts the “pragmatics-on-the-page” approach (cf. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_002_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b1Aa">Carroll et al. 2013</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_008_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b7Aa">Peikola et al. 2014</xref>) in its analysis of bibliographic codes in British Library Royal MS 18 D II, which contains the texts of Lydgate’s <italic>Troy Book</italic> and <italic>Siege of Thebes</italic>. Such visual elements of the manuscript page as <italic>mise en page</italic>, ink colour, as well as type and size of script will be examined as pragmatic markers, functioning on three levels of meaning: textual, interactional, and metalinguistic (cf. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_003_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b2Aa">Erman 2001</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_stap-2016-0013_ref_002_w2aab2b8b4b1b7b1ab1b1b2b1Aa">Carroll et al. 2013</xref>), and providing (visual) contexts for interpreting the linguistic message of the text.</abstract>

The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The aim of the present study is to thoroughly analyse the prepositions and adverbs meaning ‘between’ in the works of a Late Middle English poet John Lydgate. As regards their quality, aspects such as the etymology, syntax, dialect, temporal and textual distribution of the analysed lexemes will be presented. In terms of the quantity, the actual number of tokens of the prepositions and adverbs meaning ‘between’ employed in John Lydgate’s works will be provided and compared to the parallel statistics concerning Middle English texts collected by the <italic>Middle English Dictionary online</italic> and the <italic>Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse</italic>.The most spectacular finding is that John Lydgate regularly uses <italic>atwēn, twēn(e)</italic> and <italic>atwix(t)(en)</italic>, which are recorded in hardly any other Middle English texts. Moreover, the former two lexemes, and sporadically also <italic>atwix(t)(en)</italic>, produce the highest number of tokens of all lexemes meaning ‘between’ in each analysed Lydgate’s text, which is unique in the whole history of the English language.</abstract>

John Lydgate’s Use of Prepositions and Adverbs Meaning ‘Between’

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The onset of Professor Jacek Fisiak’s scholarly career is marked by his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation devoted to the lexical influence of English upon Polish. This study, conducted 55 years ago, offers a multilayered analysis and sets the standards of studies on lexical transfer from English to Polish for the years to come. The present article is a tribute to Fisiak’s first scholarly endeavor; it examines the fate of lexical items comprising Fisiak’s corpus in the second decade of the 21st century. More specifically, by conducting searches in the <italic>National Corpus of Polish</italic> as well as a Google search, the paper checks which borrowings to the Polish language listed and scrutinized by Fisiak gained popularity, which fell out of use, and which underwent semantic changes.</abstract>

<italic>Buszel</italic>, <italic>Kombajner</italic>, and <italic>Rels</italic>: Fisiak’s 1961 Corpus of English Borrowings in Polish Fifty Five Years Later

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper is a case study examining the choice and interaction of stylistic devices employed in <italic>The Schoole of Vertue</italic>, Francis Segar and Robert Crowley’s manual of good manners for children issued between 1582 and 1687. It was designed to convince its readers that particular patterns of behaviour were socially beneficial and worth following. In order to enhance the attractiveness, persuasiveness, and mnemonic qualities of the text, several stylistic devices are employed in the manual, including, for example, rhymes, acronyms, as well as binomials. It is generally agreed that repetitive patterns (especially binomials) are typical of formal registers, and particularly plentiful in legal and literary texts in Early Modern English, but the present study shows that similar rhetorical devices were also readily employed in the less formal and elevated style of manuals of good behaviour. Another rhetorical device frequently used in the manual under consideration consists in addressing the reader directly with the second person singular pronoun, especially in imperative constructions, thus creating an ambiance of emotional closeness, characterising the relationship between the master and the pupil.</abstract>

Stylistic Devices in <italic>The Schoole of Vertue</italic>, an Early Modern Manual of Good Conduct for Children

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Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

John Lydgate’s Use of Prepositions and Adverbs Meaning ‘Between’

Buszel, Kombajner, and Rels: Fisiak’s 1961 Corpus of English Borrowings in Polish Fifty Five Years Later

Stylistic Devices in The Schoole of Vertue, an Early Modern Manual of Good Conduct for Children

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