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Peer reviewedDanet, Brenda; Bogoch, Bryna – Language and Communication, 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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Old English, Oral Language
