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Legal Diglossia: Modeling discursive practices in premodern Indic law

Year: 2013

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Socio-linguistic practices documented in inscriptions from South and South-East Asia between the 4th and 16th centuries display a type of “functional diglossia” characteristic of legal discourse in states influenced by the transregional Dharmaśāstra tradition in Sanskrit. This diglossia can take two forms. Sanskrit itself may be used as an acrolect, either alone or in bilingual records, where it has primarily expressive or ceremonial functions. But the focus in this article is on the o...

Source: Institut Français de Pondichéry eBooks

DOI: 10.4000/books.ifp.2921

Author: Timothy Lubin

Institutions: Harvard University, Washington and Lee University, French Institute of Pondicherry

Language: English

Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W40741092

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Cites: 48

Cited by: 6

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