The Language of Queen Elizabeth I
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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I by Mel Evans
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“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)
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.
SKU | GOR005083727 |
ISBN 13 | 9781118672877 |
ISBN 10 | 1118672879 |
Title | The Language of Queen Elizabeth I |
Author | Mel Evans |
Series | Publications Of The Philological Society |
Condition | very good |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Year published | 2013-10-11 |
Number of pages | 266 |
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