Metalinguistic and Visual Cues to the Co-Occurrence of Latin and Old Polish in the Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths, 1386–1446 (eROThA)
Matylda Włodarczyk|Elżbieta Adamczyk
Multilingual handwritten texts offer fruitful ground for study into the visual aspects of co-occurrence languages, i.e. pragmatics on page (Carroll et al. 2013). This chapter draws Electronic Repository Greater Poland Oaths, 1386–1446 (eROThA) based oldest collection secular from medieval Poland, attesting vernacular beyond glosses. Although this early court documentation was written predominantly in Latin, it includes Old Polish witness oaths which may be metatextually and/or visually delimited. The repository gives access to lesser known, specialised administrative East-Central Europe, enriched with information drawn facsimiles original manuscripts. In terms language devices, oath tends marked by means items characterised code ambiguity. Visually, boundary marking differs salience, ranging text blocking, is visible level mise en page, features punctuation script subtle separation effects. focuses former type and discourse boundary, viewed as interfaces its bilingual nature modality organisation. A quantification patterns allows an exploration temporal regional variation reflected six localisations eROThA over a period 60 years.
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