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Informationen zum Autor Joanna Kopaczyk (Ph.D. Poznan, Poland, 2002) studies historical texts in context. She combines corpus linguistics with historical discourse analysis, especially in the study of specialized discourse in Scotland and England. She has delivered invited talks at linguistic departments in Poland, Germany, Finland and the UK, and presented her research at over thirty international conferences in the USA, Europe, and Australia, as well as in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including a monograph on a Middle Scots dialect (2004). Klappentext The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts Zusammenfassung The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations List of maps List of figures List of tables Chapter 1. Introduction: Scots as the language of the law Part One: The language Chapter 2. The language of legal texts Chapter 3. Exploring language of the past: Context, discourse and text Chapter 4. Repetition, fixedness and lexical bundles Part Two: The burghs Chapter 5. Burghs in Scottish history Chapter 6. Living in a burgh Chapter 7. Law and the burgh Part Three: The legal language of the burghs Chapter 8. EdHeW corpus material and lexical bundles Chapter 9. The grammar of lexical bundles in early legal Scots Chapter 10. Binomials and multinomials in early legal Scots Chapter 11. Short bundles: functional properties Chapter 12. Long bundles: Functional properties and standardization References Index
