Linguistic Modality and Female Identity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Linguistic Modality and Female Identity in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Published
- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51 (2016): 45-76.
- Description
- Traces the role of the verbs "mot-," "shul," "oughte," and "willen" in defining the relations and motivations of Walter and Griselda, to demonstrate how "the contextualization of the linguistic construction of identity relative to the individual's sociocultural situatedness may inform the study of linguistic cues for identity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Language and Word Studies