Nonverbal Communication in Medieval England: Some Lexical Problems

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Nonverbal Communication in Medieval England: Some Lexical Problems

Published
Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 44-54.

Description
Burrow comments on several scenes in TC while exploring the limited vocabulary with which medieval English poets could convey nonverbal communication. Considers words such as "cheere" and "countenance."

Alternative Title
Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.