'In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest': Politeness in Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Jucker, Andreas H.
'In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest': Politeness in Middle English
- Published
- Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Z. Kádár, eds. Historical (Im)Politeness. Linguistic Insights, no. 65 (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 175-200.
- Series
- Linguistic Insights, no. 65.
- Description
- Traces developments in the politeness system between Old English and Early Modern English, focusing on Chaucer's uses of the term "curteisie," his uses of the pronouns of address ("ye" and "thou") in MilT, and cases of "discernment" politeness in fifteenth-century letter writing.
- Contributor
- Culpepper, Jonathan, ed.
- Kádár, Dániel Z., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Historical (Im)Politeness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.