Medieval Multilingualism and Gower's Literary Practice

Author/Editor
Machan, Tim William

Title
Medieval Multilingualism and Gower's Literary Practice

Published
Machan, Tim William. "Medieval Multilingualism and Gower's Literary Practice." Studies in Philology 103 (2006), pp. 1-25.

Review
Machan—-one of the most interesting and profound speculators about late medieval English sociolinguistics now writing—-argues for "the strategic character of [Gower's] multilingualism, the way in which, within the grammatical and pragmatic constraints of a language, purpose can determine usage

Date
2006

Gower Subjects
Language and Word Studies