Speaking of the 'Canterbury Tales': The Tales as Speech Act

Author / Editor
Logan, Harry M.

Title
Speaking of the 'Canterbury Tales': The Tales as Speech Act

Published
Language and Style 20.3 (1987): 207-13.

Description
Applies to Chaucer's CT Dell Hymes's model of analyzing speech acts, SPEAKING (Situations, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Genres), exemplifying the utility of the model, its relationships to more traditional literary criticism, and, more generally, the "fresh insights" that using the model can disclose.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General