'And if ye wol nat so, my lady sweete, thane preye I thee, [ . . .]': Forms of Address in Chaucer's Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Honegger, Thomas.

Title
'And if ye wol nat so, my lady sweete, thane preye I thee, [ . . .]': Forms of Address in Chaucer's Knight's Tale

Published
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2003), pp. 61-84.

Series
Pragmatics and Beyond, n.s., no. 107

Description
Honegger argues that analyses of international forms of address would gain depth if critics considered "situational" factors and even "competing interactional" factors along with traditional considerations of ye/thou pronouns. Focuses on addresses to the gods in KnT to demonstrate such complicating factors.

Contributor
Taavitsainen, Irma, ed.
Jucker, Andreas H., ed.

Alternative Title
Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Knight and His Tale