Toward a Visual Stylistics: Assent and Denial in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cosmos, Spencer.
Toward a Visual Stylistics: Assent and Denial in Chaucer
- Published
- Visible Language 12 (1978): 406-27.
- Description
- Variations in spelling of words for "yes" and "no" are systemic in the literate language of Chaucer in that they distinguish the meanings of "no" and "nay," "yes" and "yea." As such, they are manifestations of visible language. Variant spellings of similar words exist in free variation in records of oral verse and are manifestations of audible language. Hence writing is not merely a mode of expressing speech, but a language in its own right.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.