Stylistic Variation in Verbs of Saying in The Canterbury Tales: A Tell-tale Variety

Author / Editor
Mazzon, Gabriella.

Title
Stylistic Variation in Verbs of Saying in The Canterbury Tales: A Tell-tale Variety

Published
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 255-66.

Description
Classifies Chaucer's verbs of "verbal activity" (gestural, onomatopoetic, and performative), treating verbs of saying as a subset of performative verbs.

Alternative Title
Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.