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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
Contributor(s): Evans, Mel (Author)
ISBN: 1118672879     ISBN-13: 9781118672877
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $39.43  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 306.440
LCCN: 2013013727
Series: Publications of the Philological Society
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 266 pages
 
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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 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