Competing Spaces : Dialectology and the Place of Dialect in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
Williams, Jeni.

Title
Competing Spaces : Dialectology and the Place of Dialect in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Published
Robert Penhallurick, ed. Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 46-65.

Description
Assesses linguistic features of RvT, not as evidence of rustic regional gullibility, but as factors in the Tale's response to the depiction of space in MilT. The dialect of John and Aleyn is part of an "ideological attack" in which the clerks are set against the peasant class.

Alternative Title
Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.
Miller and His Tale.