French and Frenches in Fourteenth-Century London
- Author / Editor
- Burnley, John David.
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.