The Language of Queen Elizabeth I
A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:11th Oct '13
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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 <
“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)
ISBN: 9781118672877
Dimensions: 229mm x 150mm x 10mm
Weight: 345g
266 pages