Formy zapisu i odstępku wiana w XVI-wiecznym tekście Bartłomieja Groickiego „Tytuły prawa majdeburskiego” jako skonwencjonalizowane zachowania językowe
The forms of bride price recording and renouncing in the 16th-century „Tytuły prawa majdeburskiego” by Bartłomiej Groicki as conventionalized language behaviours

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study was the forms of bride price recording and renouncing presented by Bartłomiej Groicki in Tytuły prawa majdeburskiego from 1567. The aim was, first of all, to identify the non-linguistic factors that stimulated the emergence of genre models of granting and renouncing a bride price, and secondly, to determine the degree of conventionalization of language behaviours as illocutionary acts resulting from the deliberate action of the sender on the receiver in a specific communication situation. The direct factor determining the emergence of bride price recording was a desire to prevent unfair practices that took place during the division of property after the husband’s death, while drawing up the renunciation was to protect the rights and interests of the party to whom the widow transferred the bride price. The study proved that Groicki used vocabulary and language structures that had been previously known and used in legal and official communication. The legal formulas used by the pioneer of the genre models contain illocutionary verbs, and are relatively permanent and repeatable in nature.

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