Chaucer as a Sociolinguist: Understanding the Role of Language in Chaucer's Internationalism
- Author / Editor
- Fruoco, Jonathan.
Chaucer as a Sociolinguist: Understanding the Role of Language in Chaucer's Internationalism
- Published
- James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 216-30.
- Description
- Traces the history of English from earlier times to Chaucer's age to reveal Chaucer's facility with language, focusing on his powerful and special words. Refers to J. R. R. Tolkien's 1934 lecture to the Philological Society, and claims that Chaucer was not only a gifted poet but also a remarkable philologist, aligned with linguists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Critical Insights Series
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies