'No firmó porque dijo no saber': literate and illiterate speakers in notarial documents of the corpus CODEa of the 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES

Autor: Belén Almeida Cabrejas
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Philologia Hispalensis, Vol 33, Iss 1, Pp 21-41 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1132-0265
2253-8321
DOI: 10.12795/PH.2019.v33.i01.02
Popis: During the 16th and 17th centuries, many notarial documents in Spain, signally those of a private nature, as contracts, began to include the signature (or a note on the incapacity to sign) of the parts. This change occurred in the context of increased literacy rates and of a reform of the notarial activities. In this paper, we investigate 1000 documents of these centuries contained in the linguistic corpus CODEA. Through a distinction between probatory, dispositive and petitionary documents, and between documents written by professionals (notaries) and non-professionals, the paper reflects on the possibilities of research offered by the data contained in these documents.
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