Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's 'Lesclarcissement'
- Author / Editor
- Stein, Gabriele.
Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's 'Lesclarcissement'
- Published
- Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane, eds. Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 127-39.
- Description
- Examines citations of Chaucer and Lydgate in John Palsgrave's "Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse" (1530) as indications of the dictionary-maker's efforts to record "special language use," i.e., dialectical use and varying registers.
- Contributor
- Kachru, Braj B.,
- Kahane, Henry,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies