The Language of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (I)

Author / Editor
Jimura, Akiyuki.

Title
The Language of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (I)

Published
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 53-60.

Description
Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.
Part I examines swearing, interjections, and oaths; pt. II intensive adverbs, adjectives, and the words "estat" and "honour."
Part II appears in Kiichiro Nakatani, et al., eds. English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takahashi and Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima: (Hiroshima University, Department of English, Faculty of the School of Education, 1993), pp. 187-97.
Includes word-frequency tables.

Contributor
Nakatani, Kiichiro.

Alternative Title
Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai.
Eigo Eibungaku Kenkyu: Kawai Michio Sensei Taikan Kinen.
English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takahashi.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.