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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I - 9781118672877

Un libro in lingua di Mel Evans edito da John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2013

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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

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