Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard?

Author / Editor
Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi.

Title
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.