英国旧法典

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Historical Pragmatics Pub Date : 2020-08-28 DOI:10.1075/jhp.00035.moe

L. Moessner

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摘要

摘要法律语言是不同类型法律文本的总称。法律类型的特点是书面的、立法的和正式的。到目前为止，对古英语法典的语篇结构和语言结构的定量研究还很缺乏，但本文基于约20000字的语料库对这两个方面进行了分析。定量定性分析的结果一方面与oe遗嘱进行了比较，另一方面与现代早期英语（emode）和现代英语（pde）法规进行了比较。对oe法典和oe遗嘱的共时性比较表明，这两种类型的文本结构和语言轮廓非常相似。从这一结果可以得出的结论是，体裁特性在很大程度上决定了特定时期文本的文本和语言特征。历时比较表明，后世法典和法规的语言特征存在显著差异。

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Old English law-codes

Abstract Law language is a cover-term for different genres of legal texts. The genre of law is characterized as being written, legislative and formal. Quantitative studies on the textual and linguistic structure of Old English (oe) law-codes are lacking so far, but both aspects are analysed in this paper on the basis of a corpus of about 20,000 words. The results of the quantitative-qualitative analysis are compared to oe wills on the one hand, and to Early Modern English (emode) and Present-Day English (pde) statutes on the other. The synchronic comparison of oe law-codes and oe wills reveals that the text structure and the linguistic profile of the genres are very similar. The conclusion to be drawn from this result is that genre properties largely determine the textual and linguistic profile of texts in a given period. The diachronic comparisons show marked differences in the linguistic profile of oe law-codes and statutes of later periods.

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Journal of Historical Pragmatics Multiple-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization. Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach.