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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
Mel Evans
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Description for The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
Paperback. The Language of Queen Elizabeth I presents one of the first diachronic accounts of the language - the idiolect - of the Tudor monarch who ruled England and Ireland from 1558-1603. Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
The Language of Queen Elizabeth I presents one of the first diachronic accounts of the language – the idiolect – of the Tudor monarch who ruled England and Ireland from 1558-1603.
- Suggests that Elizabeth I was a leader of language innovation and change, using it to build her complex social identity as a female monarch in a masculine position of power
- Examines a number of the monarch’s letters, speeches, and translations
- Establishes Elizabeth I’s participation in ten morpho-syntactic changes and explores her spelling practice
- Develops theoretical and methodological frameworks of variationist sociolinguistics through the analysis of the individual speaker
- Argues for the significance of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Philological Society
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118672877
SKU
V9781118672877
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Ref
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About Mel Evans
Mel Evans is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham. Her research explores the relationship between language variation and change, style, and identity in contemporary and Early Modern English, with a particular interest in the language of the Tudor Court.
Reviews for The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
“I recommend this work to scholars specialising in Elizabeth I, regardless of their discipline; historical and present-day sociolinguists working particularly with idiolect research; and those interested in historical spelling variation and historical authorship attribution.” (Cercles, 1 February 2015)