The death certificate as a text type:
An attempt at a textlinguistic analysis of the entries
in a Liber Defunctorum from the 19th century Cover Image

Der Sterbebucheintrag als Textsorte. Versuch einer textlinguistischen Analyse anhand von Einträgen in einem Liber Defunctorum aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
The death certificate as a text type: An attempt at a textlinguistic analysis of the entries in a Liber Defunctorum from the 19th century

Author(s): Piotr A. Owsiński
Subject(s): Social history, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: parish register; text linguistics; text; textuality; text type;

Summary/Abstract: The paper, involving a text linguistic analysis, attempts to identify specific features of the Polish administrative language in the entries of the parish register from Busko-Zdrój in the 19th century.The aim of the investigation is to answer the question as to whether the examined annotations can beregarded as a pattern of the registration in a parish register and so as a text type. The author focuseson the structure and characteristics of different entries. The research area defined in such a manner isbased on the outlining of structure and the function of the parish registers and their notes.

  • Issue Year: 42/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-93
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: German
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