31.2062, Books: Royal Voices: Evans

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:23:46
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Royal Voices: Evans

 


Title: Royal Voices 
Subtitle: Language and Power in Tudor England 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/royal-voices-language-and-power-tudor-england?format=HB 


Author: Mel Evans

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108851121 Pages: 278 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107131217 Pages: 278 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107131217 Pages: 278 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

The Tudors are one of the best known royal families in English history. Over
three generations, they constructed and maintained their status and authority
during a period of social, political and religious unrest. This book examines
the textual basis of Tudor royal power. Through analyses of correspondence
alongside genres including proclamations and historical chronicles, the book
explores the visual and verbal practices that came to symbolise monarchic
authority in the Tudor era. Mel Evans combines concepts from sociolinguistics
and pragmatics with corpus linguistic methods to explore the characteristics
of authentic English language Tudor texts, alongside materials reporting and
appropriating royal language. The book reveals a pervasive sixteenth-century
royal voice - one which is central to the articulation and perpetuation of
Tudor monarchic power.

Introduction
Part I. Authentic Royal Voices:
1. Materiality and power in Tudor royal correspondence
2. Royal epistolary language: trends and trajectories
3. Pragmatic perspectives on royal letters
4. Tudor royal proclamations: materiality, orality and performance
Part II. Appropriated Royal Voices:
5. Non-royal views of royal voices: afterlives and metalanguage
6. Impostor, protector and queen: the textual power of royal pretenders
7. Writing royal voices: royal discourse reports in sixteenth-century
correspondence
8. Royal voices, narrative and ideology in sixteenth-century chronicles
Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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