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

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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity - Evans, Mel
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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 ...

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The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity 2013, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken

ISBN-13: 9781118672877

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