Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Individual Variation in the Construction Realization: the Casket Letters Attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (2)
Authors
Yakovleva, Irina V.
Contact information
Yakovleva, Irina V.: Ulyanovsk State University, 42 L. Tolstoy Str., Ulyanovsk, 432000 Russia; e-mail:
Keywords
text attribution; constructions; Construction Grammar
Abstract

This study focuses on the constructional approach to the authenticity of the Casket Letters, the discovery of which helped Mary Stuart’s forced abdication. The originals disappeared, so the Letters’ authenticity can be judged only by the surviving copies which were repeatedly treated from different points of view: historical, psychological, etc. Analyzing the letters from the position of linguistics using the traditional statistical methods isn’t supposed to be justified because of their comparatively small size, but the method of grammatical analysis can be successfully applied to texts of rather a small size.

Pages
247-256
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9610

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