Before-Chaucer Evidences of an English Literary Vernacular with a Standardizing Tendency
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
Before-Chaucer Evidences of an English Literary Vernacular with a Standardizing Tendency
- Published
- Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 27-41.
- Description
- Pearsall surveys traditional accounts of the rise of an English standard and comments on recent emphases and remaining issues. Considers the Auchinleck Manuscript as evidence of the London literary culture that precedes Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.