The Last of the Canterbury Tales: Artificial Intelligence in the Fifth Millennium
- Author / Editor
- Mey, Jacob.
The Last of the Canterbury Tales: Artificial Intelligence in the Fifth Millennium
- Published
- Eva Hajicová, Miroslav Cervenka, Oldrich Leska, and Petr Sgall, eds. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague/Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, I (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995), pp. 261-94.
- Description
- Considers the question of how language may (or may not) preserve technological knowledge over time by commenting on the linguistic features of "Inland English," invented by Russell Hoban in his futuristic novel "Riddley Walker" (1980). Uses Chauceresque subtitles throughout (e.g., "The Pragmatick's Tale." "The Hoost's Tale," etc.) and closes with a quotation from MilT (1.3854).
- Contributor
- Hajicová, Eva, ed.
- Cervenka, Miroslav, ed.
- Leska, Oldrich, ed.
- Sgall, Petr, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague/Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, I.
- Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, I.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion