Rehearsing 'Everich a Word': Chaucer's Linguistic Investigations in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Felch, Susan M.
Rehearsing 'Everich a Word': Chaucer's Linguistic Investigations in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 144-53.
- Description
- The realist-nominalist debate underlies Chaucer's language, which, through multiple discourses and by analogy, embodies social order. By withholding his authority, Chaucer delegates responsibility for moral decisions to his readers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General