Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • A language policy for Lancastrian England
  • Chancery and the emergence of standard written english
  • European chancelleries and the rise of standard languages
  • Animadversions on the text of Chaucer
  • Chaucer's french: a metalinguistic inquiry
  • Piers Plowman and chancery tradition
  • Caxton and chancery english
  • The history of received pronunciation.