MetaLEX
Digital Metalexicography of Historical Legal Languages in Europe
Project Management: Prof. Dr. Rainer Maria Kiesow (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris (EHESS)) · Falk Bretschneider (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris (EHESS)) · L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris (EHESS) · Prof Dr Claudine Moulin (Universität Trier - Germanistik (Ältere deutsche Philologie)) · Prof Dr Christof Schöch (Universität Trier - Computerlinguistik & Digital HumanitiesUniversität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)) · Dr Thomas Burch (Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)) · Dr Joëlle Weis (Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)) · Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)
Sponsors: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme Paris (FMSH), Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH), L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris (EHESS)
Running time: since
Contact person (TCDH): Prof Dr Claudine Moulin; Dr Joëlle Weis
References:
Falk Bretschneider, Rainer Maria Kiesow, Claudine Moulin, Christof Schöch: Les mots de Beccaria. Métalexicographie des langues du droit de punir à partir de Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) et ses traductions en Europe. In: Beccaria. Revue d’histoire du droit de punir 5 (2019) 117-125.
Claudine Moulin / Christof Schöch : Cesare Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene (1764): Approaching the multilingual textual and paratextual tradition from an (undogmatic) digital point of view, in: Jan Horstmann et al., Toward Undogmatic Reading: Narratology, Digital Humanities and Beyond, Hamburg: Hamburg University Press 2021, 133-143. Available as online and as pdf document.
Falk Bretschneider, Rainer Maria Kiesow, Claudine Moulin, Christof Schöch: “Die alten Wörter des Rechts. Über MetaLEX – digitale Metalexikographie der historischen Rechtssprachen in Europa”. In: Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert 45.2, 2021, S. 257-271. (Themenbereich Hermeneutik und Recht im 18. Jahrhundert, konzipiert von Frank Grunert und Denis Touard.) – Angenommen.
Research Area: Software Systems and Research Infrastructure, Digital Edition and Lexicography
Keywords: Legal Language, Translation Cultures, Multilingualism, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century
Technologies:
A comprehensive documentation of the vocabulary of historical legal languages in Europe exists at best in rudimentary form. The aim of the Franco-German MetaLEX project is to close this research gap by establishing a source-based, dynamic and interdisciplinary metalexicographic information system on historical legal languages in Europe. The project is based on three types of sources and initially focuses on the period between 1700 and 1900. The resulting information system is designed generically and is intended to cover a larger period in a follow-up project and potentially accommodate an unlimited number of sources.
MetaLEX is to be understood as a historical conceptual information system of European legal languages that does not offer dictionary articles in the “traditional” sense, but rather maps historical word concepts in their temporal development by making use of research and visualization methods as well as analysis procedures of the digital humanities and the computer science. MetaLEX will thus generate a multilingual concept-oriented information system, a dynamic and networked metalexicographic repository of knowledge for the indexing of historical legal languages in Europe in the period from 1700 to 1900. MetaLEX is historically and philologically anchored, but in the long term and in the full development stage, it is also intended to be a best practice example for the processing and reflection of current legal multilingualism in Europe.
Currently, the concept is being tested on the basis of the sub-project “Cesare Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene (1764) and its 18th Century Translations: Networks, Multilingual Edition and Metalexicographic Approaches”.
Furthermore, workshops on the project were held regularly at Villa Vigoni/German Italian Centre for the European Dialogue since 2018.
Team TCDH
Anne Klee
E-mail: klee
uni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-3120
Dr Claudia Bamberg
E-mail: bamberguni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-3790
Dr Joëlle Weis
E-mail: weisuni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-3017
Dr Thomas Burch
E-mail: burchuni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-3364
Prof Dr Christof Schöch
E-mail: schoechuni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-3264
Prof Dr Claudine Moulin
E-mail: moulinuni-trier [dot] de
Phone: +49 651 201-2305