Negotiating the Present: Language and Trouthe in the Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Schutz, Andrea.

Title
Negotiating the Present: Language and Trouthe in the Franklin's Tale

Published
Jean E. Godsall-Myers, ed. Speaking in the Medieval World (Boston: Brill, 2003), 105-24.

Description
Language itself is important in FranT, but so is the intention of the speaker. Moreover, authorial intention in CT as a whole affects how we use language for our own ends, because we learn from everything we read. Authors must consider consequences of the words they write.

Alternative Title
Speaking in the Medieval World.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies