The Language of Queen Elizabeth I : A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity Paperback / softback
by Mel (University of Birmingham, UK) Evans
Part of the Publications of the Philological Society series
Paperback / softback
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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 powerExamines a number of the monarch's letters, speeches, and translationsEstablishes Elizabeth I's participation in ten morpho-syntactic changes and explores her spelling practiceDevelops theoretical and methodological frameworks of variationist sociolinguistics through the analysis of the individual speakerArgues for the significance of style as a linguistic and material property in our account of language variation and change
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/10/2013
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- ISBN:9781118672877
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:11/10/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781118672877
