A Pragmatic Approach to the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Fernandez Cuesta, Julia
A Pragmatic Approach to the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 3 (1993): 103-16.
- Description
- Pragmatic analysis suggests that the Wife of Bath in WBP and the loathly lady in WBT flout the "Quality and Quantity maxims of the Cooperative Principle" and the "maxims of Tact" of the "Politeness Principle." Targets of Chaucer's satire, the two characters seek to "manipulate rather than cooperate."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.