Discourse Strategies in the Marriage Dialogue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.

Title
Discourse Strategies in the Marriage Dialogue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 105 (2004): 153-75

Description
Pakkala-Weckstrm analyzes the power struggles within male/female couples, examining politeness strategies and providing brief analyses of speech size, topic, control, distribution of flow, and turn-taking. Considers MilT, MerT, ShT, WBT, FranT, Mel, and ClT.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General