The Path of English Literatures as a Vernacular: Chaucer, Dialect, Marginality.

Author / Editor
Okamoto, Hiroki.

Title
The Path of English Literatures as a Vernacular: Chaucer, Dialect, Marginality.

Published
Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 33 (2022): 658-83.

Description
Claims that by composing his poetry in English, Chaucer participated in the European movement of promoting the vernacular literatures. Argues that Chaucer's neutral depiction of dialectal features in the two clerks’ speeches in RvT affirms the diversity in English and contributes to the cultural richness of the language. In Japanese.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Reeve and His Tale