On the Architecture of Chaucer's Language
- Author / Editor
- Burnley, J. D.
On the Architecture of Chaucer's Language
- Published
- Erik Cooper, ed. This Noble Craft . . .: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics, Utrecht, 19-20 January, 1989. Costerus New Series, no. 80 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 43-57.
- Description
- Drawing on recent socio- and ethnolinguistic insights, Burnley examines the complex stylistic associations of commonly used language in a variety of spoken and written contexts. The structure of Chaucer's English is not neat and orderly but cumulative and diverse. The evidence for a language of the past is limited.
- Alternative Title
- This Noble Craft
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.