Speech and Writing: An Historical Overview
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Speech and Writing: An Historical Overview
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 25 (1995): 6-21.
- Description
- Surveys interrelations between speech and writing in the history of English, drawing on KnT and RvT to illustrate features of late-medieval lexis and syntax. Features of KnT may reflect "oral residue," while dialect features of RvT are better seen as matters of style.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.