The death certificate as a text type: An attempt at a textlinguistic analysis of the entries in a Liber Defunctorum from the 19th century

Abstract

The paper, involving a textlinguistic analysis, attempts to identify specific features of the Polish administrative language in the entries of the parish register from Busko-Zdrój in the 19th century. The aim of the investigation is to answer the question as to whether the examined annotations can be regarded as a pattern of the registration in a parish register and so as a text type. The author focuses on the structure and characteristics of different entries. The research area defined in such a manner is based on the outlining of structure and the function of the parish registers and their notes.