Chaucer and the Function of the Word

Author / Editor
Holley, Linda Tarte.

Title
Chaucer and the Function of the Word

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8075A.

Description
Medieval thinkers reverenced the word for its power to give order to experience, but Chaucer throughout his writings calls attention to the unreliability of the word.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.