Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard?
- Author / Editor
- Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi.
Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard?
- Published
- Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, and Pivi Pahta, eds. Writing in Nonstandard English (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 205-23
- Description
- Quantitative analysis of the language of cognition (e.g., "intellect," "knowing," "wit") in Chaucer reveals how such language entered English usage. Borrowings from French and Latin entered with specific, high-prestige philosophical or scientific meaning and were generalized later. Focuses on Bo and compares data from Gower's Confessio Amantis.
- Alternative Title
- Writing in Nonstandard English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Boece.