Code-Switching in Langland, Chaucer and the "Gawain" Poet: Diglossia and Footing.

Author / Editor
Putter, Ad.

Title
Code-Switching in Langland, Chaucer and the "Gawain" Poet: Diglossia and Footing.

Published
Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright, eds. Code-Switching in Early English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011), pp. 281-302.

Description
Explores "how and why Middle English poets switch into French," confronting distinctions between switching dialects (diglossia) and switching languages as well as acknowledging the complicating conditions of social discourse (footing). Discusses examples of switching in "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," SumT, and ShT.

Alternative Title
Code-Switching in Early English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Summoner and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale