The Making of Chaucer's English
Rhetoric, Medieval
Lexicology
English language, etymology
Medieval Rhetoric
Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400
Etymology
Glossaries, vocabularies
Language
English language
"This book is a study of Chaucer's words. It describes how these words became evidence for calling Chaucer the 'father of English poetry' but, also, how that label is wrong. It shows that Chaucer's language is, in fact, traditional and argues that his linguistic innovation was as much performance as…
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