On the Fringes of Interaction : The Dawn-Song as a 'Linguistic Routine' of Parting

Author / Editor
Honegger, Thomas.

Title
On the Fringes of Interaction : The Dawn-Song as a 'Linguistic Routine' of Parting

Published
Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz, and Franz Lebsanft, eds. Historical Dialogue Analysis. Pragmatics and Beyond, no. 66 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 189-214.

Description
Examines the dawn songs (aubades) in TC and Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" as elaborate versions of the linguistic category of parting or separation. Both dawn songs assert consolidation and assuage possible feelings of rejection; they also reestablish the courtly mode by displacing physical intimacy with language. Further, the song in TC reasserts the courtly hierarchy that had been displaced by temporary equality.

Contributor
Jucker, Andreas H., ed.
Fritz, Gerd, ed.
Lebsanft, Franz, ed.

Alternative Title
Historical Dialogue Analysis.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion