Polite Speech: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Chaucer and the 'Gawain'-poet
- Author / Editor
- Eun, Hyesoon Lim.
Polite Speech: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Chaucer and the 'Gawain'-poet
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 493A-494A.
- Description
- Nouns of address and the two second-person forms offer clues to perceptions of rank, ideals, and tone, as well as to characterization. Chaucer and the "Gawain"-poet exploit linguistic resources brilliantly.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.