Slanders, Slurs and Insults on the Road to Canterbury : Forms of Verbal Aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Jucker, Andreas H.
Slanders, Slurs and Insults on the Road to Canterbury : Forms of Verbal Aggression in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Placing Middle English in Context (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 369-89.
- Description
- Classifies instances of verbal aggression within and across narrative layers in CT in several groups: direct, embedded, mediated, or indirect. Considers the speaker, the addressee, and the target of aggression, exploring twenty-two examples.
- Alternative Title
- Placing Middle English in Context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Language and Word Studies.