Mel Evans

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mel Evans plays a role.

Articles

The paper investigates how high-ranking early modern women letter-writers negotiated the social tension between their subordinate position as women, and their positions of power, in the linguistic construction of their epistolary identities. We focus on the letters of four Tudor women: Kathryn… read more
This paper investigates the formal and functional dimensions of reported discourse in sixteenth-century correspondence. It focuses on how letter-writers report the utterances – spoken, thought and written – of high-status sources (namely, the king or queen), in order to assess how the early… read more
Kaislaniemi, Samuli, Mel Evans, Teo Juvonen and Anni Sairio 2017 “A graphic system which leads its own linguistic life”? Epistolary spelling in English, 1400–1800Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 187–213 | Chapter
Traditional accounts of the history of English spelling are primarily based on printed texts. According to them, English orthography developed from great diversity in Late Middle English to modern standard spelling by 1800. Studies have also revealed a split between public and private spelling… read more
Evans, Mel 2016 Chapter 3. From ornament to armament: The epistolary rhetoric of Lady Elizabeth TudorLinguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
Queen Elizabeth I is recognised as a monarch for whom language was an essential tool in the construction of her authority and the maintenance of her rule. This can be seen directly through her state communication e.g. parliamentary speeches, or more indirectly in her activities in literary… read more