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Introduction to Middle English The Language of Chaucer: Sex and Practical Jokes in the Miller’s Tale (AE_HIMidEn)- Lecturer
- Julian Mader, M.Ed.
- Details
- Sprachhistorisches Seminar
Präsenz
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
für FAU Scientia Gaststudierende zugelassen, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- The Sprachhistorisches Seminar belongs to the following modules in the indicated degree programs:
– BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul B (Requirements: completed Zwischenmodul II)
The course will conclude with a written test.
- Contents
- In this introductory course, we will explore the variety of Middle English employed by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
You will become familiar with the most important phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and pragmatic features of Chaucer’s language as well as their origin and further development. This will provide you with a better understanding of (ir)regularities and characteristics of Present-day English, for example the discrepancy between spelling and writing (e.g. <ee> for /i:/ as in see /si:/), irregular forms such as plural mice instead of *mouses, and why we address everyone with you irrespective of number or politeness (cf. French tu and vous).
The class also involves intensive reading and translation into German of "The Miller’s Tale" from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a fabliau packed with witty exchanges, sex, and practical jokes, and "in many ways the most perfectly accomplished of the Canterbury Tales" (Pearsall 2003: 165).
- Recommended literature
- Please acquire: Sauer, Walter. 1998. Die Aussprache des Chaucer-Englischen: Ein Übungsbuch auf der Grundlage des Prologs der Canterbury Tales. Heidelberg: Winter.
Further literature will be provided on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Tuesday, 1.3.2022, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 30.4.2022, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Juniorprofessur für Englische Linguistik, insbesondere historische Linguistik und Variationslinguistik
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