Textualizing the Vernacular in Late Medieval England: Suggestions for Some Heuristic Reconsiderations
- Author / Editor
- Schaefer, Ursula.
Textualizing the Vernacular in Late Medieval England: Suggestions for Some Heuristic Reconsiderations
- Published
- Andrew James Johnston, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Stefan Thim, eds. Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), pp. 269-90.
- Description
- Schaefer considers the process of vernacularization in late medieval English in comparison with other European languages, suggesting that quotations from the period about English are commonplaces rather than reflections of contemporary attitudes and calling for attention to the tradition of "ars dictandi." Also comments on Mel and ParsT as self-conscious examples of expository written prose.
- Alternative Title
- Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Language and Word Studies.
- Tale of Melibee.
- Parson and His Tale.