Bilingualism and Betrayal in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Shippey, Tom.
Bilingualism and Betrayal in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Jean E. Godsall-Myers, ed. Speaking in the Medieval World (Boston: Brill, 2003), 125-44.
- Description
- Just as in RvT Chaucer plays on his audience's awareness of dialect geography, in SumT he exploits strong contemporary awareness of linguistic class markers. If Chaucer was in some sense a philologist, he was also an efficient and deliberate sociolinguist.
- Alternative Title
- Speaking in the Medieval World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.