The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity - Couverture souple

Evans, Mel

 
9781118672877: The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
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ISBN 10 : 1118672879 ISBN 13 : 9781118672877
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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 style as a linguistic and material property in our account of language variation and change

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1118672879
ISBN 13 
9781118672877
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
266
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