Selection of Annotated Texts

2019 ◽  
pp. 317-602
Author(s):  
Howard Jones ◽  
Martin H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Walther Von Der Vogelweide ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of texts comprises extracts not only from the courtly literature of the Middle High German Classical period such as Erec, the Nibelungenlied, Parzival, Tristan, and the lyrics of Walther von der Vogelweide, but also from religious literature, writings on natural history, chronicles, and legal texts. Verse and prose works from the whole span of the Middle High German period are included. In addition to texts in the normalized Middle High German in which the classical authors are normally read, texts have been chosen to represent all the major dialects of Middle High German. Each text has an introduction placing it in context; texts in a dialectical variety have also linguistic introductions. All texts are accompanied by notes on their grammar, vocabulary, and content, and by recommendations for further reading. Two introductory texts are designed to familiarize readers new to Middle High German with essential features of the language.

Versification

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-250
Author(s):  
Howard Jones ◽  
Martin H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
General Account ◽  
Verse Forms ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter describes the chief features of versification in poetry written in the Middle High German Classical period (c.1170–c.1230) and in the remainder of the Middle High German period. The four parts of the chapter treat metre (anacrusis, interior of the line, cadence), rhyme (types of rhyme, rhyme schemes), lines of verse in context (rhythmical continuity or discontinuity between lines of verse, metrical and syntactical structures, rhyming couplets and syntactical structures), and verse forms (non-strophic verse, strophic verse in heroic and lyric poetry, the ‘Stollenstrophe’). Tips for the scansion of verse are included. Technical terminology in English and German is explained throughout. Examples are in the main drawn from the selection of texts (Chapter 5). In the case of lyric verse, the general account in this chapter is supplemented by metrical analyses of each song included in the selection.

The “Criminal Tribe” in India before the British

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Piliavsky
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imperial Politics ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
Broad Consensus ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Travel Accounts

AbstractThis paper challenges the broad consensus in current historiography that holds the Indian stereotype of criminal tribe to be a myth of colonial making. Drawing on a selection of precolonial descriptions of robber castes—ancient legal texts and folktales; Jain, Buddhist and Brahmanic narratives; Mughal sources; and Early Modern European travel accounts—I show that the idea of castes of congenital robbers was not a British import, but instead a label of much older vintage on the subcontinent. Enjoying pride of place in the postcolonial critics' pageant of “colonial stereotypes,” the case of criminal tribes is representative and it bears on broader questions about colonial knowledge and its relation to power. The study contributes to the literature that challenges the still widespread tendency to view colonial social categories, and indeed the bulk of colonial knowledge, as the imaginative residue of imperial politics. I argue that while colonialusesof the idea of a criminal tribe comprises a lurid history of violence against communities branded as born criminals in British law, the stereotype itself has indigenous roots. The case is representative and it bears on larger problems of method and analysis in “post-Orientalist” historiography.

Historical, Cultural, and Literary Background

2019 ◽  
pp. 251-316
Author(s):  
Howard Jones ◽  
Martin H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
German Society ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This chapter describes the context in which the texts chosen for study originated and in which the use of German as a written language developed during the Middle High German period. No prior knowledge of the period is presupposed; key concepts are explained as they arise. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first explains the formation of the kingdom of Germany and of the Holy Roman Empire and examines the relationship between them. The second section describes the structure and working of German society under the following headings: the church; kingship and the secular nobility (including discussion of knighthood and chivalry); peasants and the rural economy; towns and townspeople. The third section surveys the principal types of texts that provide the basis for the study of Middle High German. The survey covers religious literature, courtly literature, chronicles, legal and administrative texts, and medical and other specialist literature.

A diachronic speech act analysis of sworn testimonies in Polish criminal trials

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kwarciński
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Proper Analysis ◽  
Selection Of

In this paper I employ a diachronic model of analyzing speech acts to trace the development of sworn testimonies through the history of the Polish criminal trial. The research is based on the complete collection of medieval testimonies in Old Polish that have survived to the present day and on a selection of legal texts recorded in modern criminal trials. My preliminary assumption is that a proper analysis of institutional acts such as testimonies can only be achieved when their socio-historical context is taken into account. This is due to the fact that the very existence of legal speech acts depends on a set of constitutive rules that are socially and historically variable. The study corroborates my hypothesis and offers evidence in favor of the view that the changing legal context in which testimonies occur affects not only the ways in which they are realized over time but also their performative function.

scholarly journals Selection of a lectotype for Brachycrus laticeps mooki Schultz and Falkenbach (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Merycoidodontidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4323 (3) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
BRYN J. MADER
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Catalog Number ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Specimen Number

In 1968 Schultz and Falkenbach described a new oreodont subspecies, Brachycrus laticeps mooki, from a locality 11 km (7 miles) southeast of Fort Logan, Meagher County, Montana. As a holotype for this new taxon, Schultz and Falkenbach (1968:369) designated both American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) specimen number 21321 (a skull) and AMNH 21322 (a left ramus). Although the citation of two separate catalog numbers as a holotype is highly unusual, Schultz and Falkenbach believed that the specimens cataloged under both numbers represent only a single individual. The use of the term ‘holotype’ was appropriate, therefore, although it would have been more common practice to place elements believed to represent a single individual under a single catalog number. Schultz and Falkenbach did not give a justification for their opinion that AMNH 21321 and AMNH 21322 represent the same individual, although they stated this belief in two publications (1941 and 1968). 

scholarly journals Comunicación simétrica y asimétrica en los blogs de divulgación jurídica: entre modalidad epistémica y modalidad deóntica

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Gianluca Pontrandolfo ◽  
Sara Piccioni
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legal Expert ◽  
Symmetrical Communication ◽  
Selection Of

 This paper aims at investigating some discursive features of blawgs, namely legal blogs in which legal experts disseminate and popularise their expertise. More specifically, it involves a corpus-assisted discourse study of the ways in which situational contexts affect the practices and strategies used to represent, construct and communicate legal knowledge. A comparison is drawn between two corpora representative of two different types of communication: a selection of posts written by legal experts for other experts (symmetrical communication) and posts written by legal experts for laypersons (asymmetrical communication). Combining qualitative and quantitative observations, the analysis shows that, in symmetrical communication, the emphasis is on the blogger’s subjective interpretation of legal texts and on his role as knowledge disseminator, as indicated by the predominance of epistemic modality. In asymmetrical communication, on the other hand, the prevalence of deontic modality shifts the focus on to the reader as addressee of the advice, instructions and information provided by the legal expert.

scholarly journals Критерії відбору та первинна обробка емпіричного матеріалу паралельного корпусу юридичних текстів

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Svitlana Matvieieva
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Information ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Primary Selection ◽  
Selection Of

The article deals with the formation of criteria for the primary selection of legal texts for the English-Ukrainian parallel corpus of legal texts. The author has developed a classification of legal texts on the basis of the style and text genres, taking into account the types of legal acts, and makes an attempt to combine legal and linguistic characteristics applicable to the classification of legal documents. The article proposes the structure of the metadata card for corpus texts (original and translation), which are tested on text samples. The need for metatext data and extra-linguistic information for working with corpus texts is substantiated in the article.

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