Travelling the Paths of Discourse Traditions: A Sample Analysis of the Lexical Innovation "blisfulnesse" in Chaucer's "Boece."

Author / Editor
Schaefer, Ursula.

Title
Travelling the Paths of Discourse Traditions: A Sample Analysis of the Lexical Innovation "blisfulnesse" in Chaucer's "Boece."

Published
Svenja Kranich, Victor Becher, Steffen Höder, and Juliane House, eds. Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2011), pp. 45-69.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's coinage "blisfulnesse" (also "welefulnesse") in Bo is a calque on the Latin models of "beatitude" and "felicitas," reflecting the poet's sensitivity to complicated conditions of discourse.

Contributor
Svenja Kranich, ed.
Victor Becher, ed.
Steffen Höder, ed.
Juliane House, ed.

Alternative Title
Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Boece