Chaucer's Language
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon.
Chaucer's Language
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- x, 198 pp.
- Description
- Discursive description of Middle English, focusing on Chaucer's dialect and usage, divided into eight chapters: (1) Why Study Chaucer's Language?; (2) Writing in English; (3) What Was Middle English?; (4) Spelling and Pronunciation; (5) Vocabulary; (6) Grammar (includes parts of speech and syntax); (7) Language and Style (includes prose style); and (8) Discourse and Pragmatics (includes forms of address, politeness, swearing, discourse markers, and styles of speech). Each section offers recommendations for further reading. The volume includes an appendix of sample texts, a glossary of linguistic terms, a bibliography, and a brief index.
- Revised second edition published in 2013 (xii, 221 pp.).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.