Legal Diglossia: Modeling discursive practices in premodern Indic law

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...

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