Tim William Machan
Abstract
This chapter considers how the status of a language can figure in cultural activity by looking at two late-medieval poems: Chaucer's Reeve's Tale and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Their implications for the significance of social and regional variation in Middle English are considered.
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This chapter considers how the status of a language can figure in cultural activity by looking at two late-medieval poems: Chaucer's Reeve's Tale and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Their implications for the significance of social and regional variation in Middle English are considered.
Key concepts: Linguistics, History, Art, Philosophy