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

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

Volume 57 (2022): Issue 1 (January 2022)

By: Olga Timofeeva

Open Access

|Jul 2022

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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2022-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2082-5102 | Journal ISSN: 0081-6272

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Language: English

Page range: 109 - 129

Published on: Jul 13, 2022

Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University

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Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

historical sociolinguistics,

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Other languages of Europe,

European languages, other,

Literary studies,

Anglo-American literature,

Anglo-American literature, general,

Topics in literary studies,

Literary studies and linguistics

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