English Language and Linguistics

Table of Contents - July 2012 - Volume 16, Special Issue 02 (Selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Late Modern English)  

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Research Article

The king's speech: metalanguage of nation, man and class in anecdotes about George III1

CAROL PERCYa1

a1 Department of English, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8, Canada carol.percy@utoronto.ca

(Received December 14 2011)

(Revised March 05 2012)

(Online publication June 01 2012)

Footnotes

1 For supporting this research, I'm very grateful to SSHRC (410062012) and to the University of Toronto Work-Study program. For their resourceful and assiduous research on the material I've drawn on here, I'd like to thank André Babyn, Alex Eastwood, Emma Gorst, Arden Hegele, Brett Rhyno, Yvonne Robertson, Alexis Sampson, Kate Stevenson and Joshua Wasserman. I'd also like to thank Jane Hodson, Paul Stevens and two anonymous reviewers for their most generous and helpful suggestions. For reproducing letters from the Royal Archives, I gratefully acknowledge the help of the Registrars and the permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.