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

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118672879
• ISBN13: 9781118672877
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"