Genre, Gender, and Power : A Study of Address Forms in Seven Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.
Genre, Gender, and Power : A Study of Address Forms in Seven Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Karind Aijmer and Britta Olinder, eds. Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies (Goteborg: Goteborg University Department of English, 2003), pp. 121-36.
- Description
- Pakkala-Weckstrom applies linguistic "politeness theory" to the use of pronouns as "forms of address in male/female dialogue" in MilT, MerT, ShT, ClT, Mel, WBT, and FranT. Usage is similar in the romances and religious tales but differs in the fabliaux; social class complicates patterns of usage in male and female speech.
- Contributor
- Aijmer, Karind, ed.
- Olinder, Britta, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.