Demonstrates that an understanding of Chaucer’s so

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Guide to Chaucer’s Language

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By David Burnley (au)
Year: 1983
Pages: 264
Binding Paperback
ISBN 806126655

Product Code: 1437964915

Description

Demonstrates that an understanding of Chaucer’s social, cultural, and literary world is vital to our understanding of his language and meaning. In the first part of the book, David Burnley draws upon modern linguistics and concentrates on the texts and various approaches to interpreting the poet’s grammar and syntax. The second part treats Chaucer’s language and vocabulary in its broader contemporary context, dealing with language use, style, and variety and culminating in a provocative chapter on the “architecture” of Chaucer’s language. “An enormously useful study for historians of the English language, especially for its relevance to 14th-century English, as well as to medievalists in general.” Illustrations.

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