Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: A Reconsideration of Its Style in the Context of the History of English Scientific Prose
- Author / Editor
- Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: A Reconsideration of Its Style in the Context of the History of English Scientific Prose
- Published
- Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda Univesity Enterprise, 2001), pp. 93-100.
- Description
- Originally published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Language Teaching (Waseda University) 51 (1996). Challenges M. A. K. Halliday's 1988 description of the prose style of Astr, focusing on the use of second-person pronouns and calling for greater attention to the sociolinguistic and historical conditions of the work.
- Alternative Title
- The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.