Code-Switching and Authority in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Davidson, Mary Catherine.
Code-Switching and Authority in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Neophilologus 87: 473-86, 2003.
- Description
- Examples from "The Chronicle of Peter Langtoft," "Piers Plowman," and CT (WBP and PardP) indicate how patterns of mixed-language speech reflect the social motivations of the speakers, especially their efforts to construct authority and restrict social membership.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.