Chaucer's French: A Metalinguistic Inquiry
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, John H.
Chaucer's French: A Metalinguistic Inquiry
- Published
- Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 33-45.
- Description
- Explores the relation between language and psychology, arguing that Chaucer's increasing use of French loan-words throughout his poetic career reflects a growth in conceptual richness, a microcosm of the growth of English, culturally and linguistically.
- Reprinted in The Emergence of Standard English (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996), pp. 99-108.
- Alternative Title
- Emergence of Standard English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.