Polite Speech: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Chaucer and the 'Gawain'-poet

Author / Editor
Eun, Hyesoon Lim.

Title
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.