French and Frenches in Fourteenth-Century London

Author / Editor
Burnley, John David.

Title
French and Frenches in Fourteenth-Century London

Published
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 17-34.

Description
Challenges "over-simple dichotomies" between English and French in late-medieval England and illustrates the "pragmatic complexity" of the use of Anglo-French texts. Assesses grammar, style, "speaker attitudes" (with reference to CT and TC), and ambiguities of the word "French."

Alternative Title
Language Contact in the History of English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Canterbury Tales--General.