Background
David, Arlette was born on August 25, 1964 in Brussels.
(Analysis of the legal register of a corpus of some fifty ...)
Analysis of the legal register of a corpus of some fifty Ramesside royal decrees dating from 1300 to 1100 B.C. in the wider context of forensic discourse analysis of the legislative genre, in an attempt to establish constants in forensic linguistics that span time and space. The general character and formulation of these normative documents reveal a remarkable homogeneity and represent a specific linguistic register that has a common textemic, pragmatic, and narratologic structure, as well as a coherent syntactic and lexico-semantic usage, as modern legal dialects do today. Furthermore, the research tries to enrich the understanding of Egyptian legal terminology and legal categories by a systematic semantic analysis of the classifiers used in the legal lexicon (classifers in the hieroglyphic system represent iconic elements that have no phonetic value, but assign words to semantic classes). The extremely interesting Egyptian graphic categorization set of classifiers present in these texts offers some invaluable insights into the Egyptian conceptual organization system.
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(Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt du...)
Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt during the well documented 19th and 20th dynasties (circa 1300-1100 B.C.), the book describes the legal language used in recording wills and gifts. It is compared with the language of royal decrees tackled by the author's Syntactic and Lexico- Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees (previously published in the same collection), and with some examples of legal languages associated with private instruments in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and in modern times. After presentation of the criteria used to establish the corpus and the multiple dilemmas involved, each text is analyzed for its linguistic and graphic features, as well as the lexico-semantic features associated with the categorization system embedded in the script (for terminology of spezial legal relevance). Related textual categories such as partitions, 'social gifts', and contract-related records are dealt with separately as they did not constitute enforceable private law instruments. A distinct Ramesside private deeds register (variety of language distinguished according to use) emerges from the analysis, resulting from choices and strategies adapted to a specific legal topic and communicative purpose.
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David, Arlette was born on August 25, 1964 in Brussels.
Master of Laws, University Libre Bruxelles, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy in Egyptology summa cum laude, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 2003.
Legal counselor, departmental staff of vice prime minister, Brussels, 1987—1988. Researcher School Public Health, University Libre Bruxelles, 1988—1991. Lecturer Hebrew University Jerusalem, since 2004.
(Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt du...)
(Analysis of the legal register of a corpus of some fifty ...)
Member of Association International Pour l'Etude Droit l"Egypte Ancienne (Paris), International Association Egyptologists.