Pragmatic Markers in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Pragmatic Markers in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- A. J. Tops, Betty Devriendt, and Steven Geukens, eds. Thinking English Grammar: To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus (Leuven: Peeters, 1999), pp. 3-13.
- Description
- Variants among pragmatic markers-"items which add to the feel of the line or to the organization of the text rather than directly to the sense of the passage"-in the manuscripts of WBP indicate that scribes changed them freely, even subconsciously. Hence, such variants must be used with special caution when seeking to establish manuscript stemmata.
- Alternative Title
- Thinking English Grammar: To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.