Speaking of the 'Canterbury Tales': The Tales as Speech Act
- Author / Editor
- Logan, Harry M.
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