From Oral Ceremony to Written Document: The Transitional Language of Anglo-Saxon Wills.

Danet, Brenda; Bogoch, Bryna

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ERIC Number: EJ444566

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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From Oral Ceremony to Written Document: The Transitional Language of Anglo-Saxon Wills.

Danet, Brenda; Bogoch, Bryna

Language and Communication, v12 n2 p95-122 Apr 1992

Presents theoretical discussion of the emergence of linguistic features of documents that indicate society is moving toward a view of writing as a form of constitutive social action and of written documents as autonomous material objects having a life of their own. Linguistic features of Anglo-Saxon wills are shown to differ from those of modern ones. (83 references) (LB)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Old English, Oral Language, Sociolinguistics, Wills, Written Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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