Conversational Noncooperation: The Case of Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Schauber, Ellen,and Ellen Spolsky.

Title
Conversational Noncooperation: The Case of Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Language and Style 16 (1983): 249-61.

Description
In his shameless self-revelation the Pardoner confuses and angers his audience by mixing boasting and confiding with their contrary expectations of approval and mitigated disapproval.

Contributor
Spolsky, Ellen.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.