Legal Binomials in Old Bailey Corpus

• Název práce v češtině: Právnické binomály v Old Bailey Corpus
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Legal Binomials in Old Bailey Corpus
• Klíčová slova: binomiály|Old Bailey Corpus|právní angličtina
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Binomials|Old Bailey Corpus|Legal English
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2021/2022
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky (21-UAJD)
• Vedoucí / školitel: prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 02.06.2022
• Datum zadání: 02.06.2022
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 07.06.2022
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 05.02.2025 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 14.01.2025
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 05.02.2025
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: Mgr. Ondřej Tichý, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

Old Bailey Corpus represents recordings of trial proceedings in London’s Old Bailey (The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales) between 1720 – 1913. The corpus contains over 24 million words and in these texts there can be found binomials such as oyer and terminer, will and testament, good and lawful, or aiding and abetting, obviously related to the nature of the proceedings. They are legal binomials where the pair, in its formulaic nature, represents one meaning. As such they can be considered for a study.
Generally, binomials are well attested in English, however, there are no known previous works on binomials with this amount of data specializing on legal terminology only. A similar research has been carried out by Kathleen L. Doty and Mark Wicklund using the corpus of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Their results have been summarized in an article called “’Shee gave Selfe both Soule and body to the Devill’: The Use of Binomials in the Salem Witchcraft Trials”. Nevertheless, their research concentrates on a single event only and cannot trace any diachronic development.
The aim of this work is to search the Old Bailey Corpus for binomials that consist of a pair of nouns, adjectives, or verbs, connected by either the conjunction and or or. These pairs must be idiomatic expressions, typically consisting of synonyms, hyponyms, or complements. In principle, there should be no antonyms. Frequency will be examined for each decade and the results will be structured according to the types of texts (written, spoken), possibly also by their authors or editors. Lexical category, semantic
constraints on word order, and reversibility will be examined. Strictly legal texts will be used (no advertisements).
Since the binomials should describe one concept (unlike for instance ladies and gentlemen), in situations where the pair is consisting of synonyms, the members will be contrasted to the frequency of their individual members and the development will be noted whether one expression gradually displaces the other. In addition, the earlier history of the binomials will be taken into consideration as well.
Also, as the Old Bailey Corpus spans almost 200 years and concludes with the year 1913, it will be examined whether the use of the selected binomials had increased or decreased over time and if the forms of the expressions had been fixed by the end of the period. Depending on the results, further developments of the selected binomials may be incorporated with a comparison to the modern use in the British National Corpus or checked against the occurrence of the same phenomena in the Royal Society Corpus.
Práce bude vypracována v anglickém jazyce.

Seznam odborné literatury

List of primary sources:
The Old Bailey Proceedings Online: Hitchcock, T. - Shoemaker, R. - Emsley, C. - Howard, S. - McLaughlin, J. et al. (2012): The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.0, 24 March 2012.
The British National Corpus, version 2 (BNC World). 2001. Distributed by Oxford University Computing Services on behalf of the BNC Consortium. URL: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
Kermes, Hannah, Stefania Degaetano, Ashraf Khamis, Jörg Knappen, and Elke Teich. 2016. “The Royal Society Corpus: From Uncharted Data to Corpus.” In Proceedings of the LREC 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/792.html.

List of secondary sources:
J. Kopaczyk and H. Sauer, ed. Binomials in the History of English. (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
A. Klégr and J. Čermák, Binomials in an Historical English Literary Perspective: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Beowulf (January 2008).
Kopaczyk, Joanna. “Terms and conditions: A comparative study of noun binomials in UK and Scottish legislation”. Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings: A Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Perspective (2017): 160-177. 21 May 2022.
Dobrić Basaneže, Katja. “Extended binomial expressions in the language of contracts”. Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings (2018): 203-220. 21 May 2022.
D. Mellinkoff, The Language of the Law (Little, Brown and Company, 1963).
Kopaczyk, Joanna. “Binomials and Multinomials in Early Legal Scots”. The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs (2013): n. pag. 21 May 2022.
Ronan, Patricia. “Question strategies in the Old Bailey Corpus”. Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97 (2020): 153-171. 21 May 2022.
Hitchcock, Tim, and William J Turkel. “The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674–1913: Text Mining for Evidence of Court Behavior”. Law and history review 34.4 (2016): 929-955. 21 May 2022.