Aspects of Syntax and Lexis in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Aspects of Syntax and Lexis in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 7 (1983): 1-20.
- Description
- The lack of a clearcut distinction between connotative and denotative associations of words, as well as the looseness of syntactical patterns in Middle English, forces us to focus on the rhetorical arrangement of ideas and words--repetition, balance, and contrast. In the description of the Prioress in GP, Chaucer exploits the resources of language in a teasing portrait.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Prioress and Her Tale.