Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England

Bach, Ulrich

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“…As mentioned above, the most important earlier study on the topic was carried out by Hiltunen (1990), who explores historical legislation and complexity from the Anglo-Saxon period onwards. More recent research has shifted to pragmatic topics such as impoliteness and speech acts in courtroom proceedings and court documents (KrykKastovsky 2006 andDoty and Hiltunen 2009) as well as will-making in the Early Modern English era (Bach 1995). Works on lexical subjects encompass binominals in sixteenth-century Scots and English legislation (Bugaj 2006); topics on syntax issue connectors including conditional constructions (Facchinetti 2001) and connectives in sermons and statutes (Kohnen 2007).…”

Section: Complexity In Legislationmentioning

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Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period

Lehto

2010

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This paper concentrates on Early Modern English statutes printed in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The study considers the development of complexity and the rise of modern writing conventions by following the diachronic pragmatic view. The analysis also draws on genre studies and underlines the sociohistorical impact on linguistic changes. Complexity is assessed by a systematic method that observes the textual structure and syntax. The material consists of legislative documents in Early English Books Online; six of the documents were transcribed and compiled into a small-scale corpus.The results indicate that complexity was a common feature in the Early Modern English period: coordination and subordination are frequently used, and the sixteenth-century documents have an increasing tendency to favour subordination. During the sixteenth century, legislative sentences and text type structure become more regular and correspond to present-day practices.

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Section: Complexity In Legislationmentioning

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Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period

Lehto

2010

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“…Prvi primjer koji ćemo prokomentarisati je iz pjesme Le due strade pjesnika Guida Gozzana iz 1903. godine. 4. Budući da su vrste tekstova u kojima se mogu primijetiti osobenosti govornog jezika tema našeg rada, nećemo se baviti već sastavljenim digitalnim korpusima italijanskog jezika koji, svakako, mogu poslužiti kao jedan od izvora dostupne građe na osnovu koje se može analizirati govorni jezik u korpusno-lingvističkom ključu u pravom smislu te riječi (v. Kytö 2011; Taavitsainen, Jucker & Tuominen 2014).…”

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On the Sources of Spoken (Italian) Language in a Historical Perspective

Lalić

2023

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In this paper, we research the importance of corpora in historical pragmatics. From the origins of historical pragmatics as a science the question of choosing an appropriate corpus has been in the center of attention. The problematics of historical pragmatics demand a corpus that reflects faithfully the spoken language. However, such registered sources do not exist. Thus, researchers face problems when choosing corpora that have to be written but also reflect speech. That is why we synthesize a review of often-used corpora and we present their advantages and disadvantages. We apply the theory of Giovanni Nencioni (1976) that differs between the spoken language in the true meaning of the word (parlato parlato), written spoken language (parlato scritto), and recited spoken language (parlato recitato). Based on his research, we can claim that some of the privileged forms in historical pragmatics are literary works, theater pieces, religious scriptures, and speech transcripts. Thus, we examine the advantages and disadvantages of the aforementioned corpora and we aim to determine if they are suitable to be used in historical pragmatics. The research shows that it is impossible to find a completely adequate corpus because none of them reflect the spoken language in all of its characteristics and they approach it only partially.

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“…I testi legali sono peculiari nella loro forma perché sono di carattere performativo (Visconti 2009) e presentano una situazione di monologo (jucker 2000) giacché non viene stabilito un rapporto comunicativo fra due parlanti e non è prevista una risposta dell'interlocutore. Alcuni autori (kurzon 1986;bach 1995;Visconti 2009;Nakaš 2010;Tollerton 2011;lovrić jović 2006 basano le indagini sulla lingua viva e parlata delle epoche passate proprio sugli atti legali e i testamenti, ipotizzando che questi rappresentino la lingua viva. In questi testi infatti, a differenza delle opere letterarie, l'autore non è vincolato dalle esigenze stilistiche e letterarie e può esprimersi utilizzando la lingua autentica (bartoli 2000, lovrić jović 2006).…”

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La realizzazione degli atti linguistici nei testamenti medievali

Lalić¹

2020

Italica Belgradensia

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Nel presente contributo ci proponiamo di analizzare, attraverso la lente della pragmatica storica, i tipi di atti linguistici in un corpus di testamenti italiani redatti a Ragusa verso la fine del Trecento e durante il Quattrocento. l'obiettivo del nostro lavoro è individuare gli atti linguistici corrispondenti alla forma del testamento, quelli direttamente determinati da essa o dal contesto di provenienza. a tal fine riprendiamo il quadro teorico di Austin (1962) nel tentativo di applicarlo alla diacronia. L'ipotesi primaria della ricerca è che la maggior parte degli atti linguistici provenga dalla forma del testamento e dalla sua natura giuridica e che possa essere riconosciuta dalla struttura grammaticale. I risultati della ricerca implicano che la teoria di Austin possa essere impiegata nelle ricerche diacroniche e che gli atti linguistici dei testamenti siano determinati dalla forma convenzionale del testamento come atto giuridico.

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Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England

Cited by 18 publications

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Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period

Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period

On the Sources of Spoken (Italian) Language in a Historical Perspective

La realizzazione degli atti linguistici nei testamenti medievali

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