36.3650, Books: Chaucer's Language: Horobin (2025)

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Subject: 36.3650, Books: Chaucer's Language: Horobin (2025)

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Chaucer's Language: Horobin (2025)


Title: Chaucer's Language
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/chaucers-language-9781350473782/

Author(s): Simon Horobin

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350473799, Price: £90.00
Paperback, ISBN: 9781350473782, Price: £28.99

Abstract:

Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle
English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and
the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a
modern translation.
Chaucer's Language leads the reader gently through basic linguistic
concepts with appropriate explanation, highlighting how Chaucer's
English differs from present-day English, and the significance of this
for interpreting and understanding his work. It provides close
analysis and comparison with the writings of Chaucer's contemporaries
to show how Chaucer drew on the variety of Middle English to achieve
particular poetic effects. Annotated texts, an extensive glossary of
linguistic terms, common Middle English words and 'false friends', a
bibliography and suggestions for further reading all support students
and aid study.
This 3rd edition has been fully revised throughout and includes:
- a new chapter on using digital images to study Chaucer's texts
- references to a greater range of recent editions and translations
- updated examples and insights from the most recent scholarship on
rhetoric, punning, word studies, Middle English dialectology and new
approaches to the history of standardisation.
Authoritative and easy to follow, this is an indispensable guide to
understanding, appreciating and enjoying the language of Chaucer.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Translation




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