British and Romanian Constitutional Monarchies – Marina-Cristiana Rotaru

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British and Romanian Constitutional Monarchies. Their Representations in the Royal Discourse of Queen Elizabeth II and King Mihai I This challenging book maps new territory by circumscribing the analysis of royal speeches to CDA against a historical background. Most researches into monarchical issues have drawn from history, philosophy, constitutional law, not from linguistics. Yet, Marina-Cristiana Rotaru`s book is not an artificial juxtaposition of the two disciplines, history and CDA, since, as she specifies, CDA "tends to historicise speech". The use of Norman Fairclough, Henry G. Widdowson, Jan Blommaert, Raymond Williams and others shows genuine respect for their findings, yet also the birth of an independent voice that reshapes theirs into developments that they may …