The Language of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (II)
- Author / Editor
- Jimura, Akiyuki.
The Language of Criseyde in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' (II)
- Published
- Kiichiro Nakatani et al., eds. English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takahashi and Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima University: Department of English, Faculty of the School of Education, 1993), pp. 187-97.
- 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."
- Includes word-frequency tables.
- Part I appears in Nobuyuki Yuasa, et al., eds. Essays in English language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 53-60.
- Alternative Title
- English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takashi and Jiro Igarashi.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.