Finding Pragmatic Common Ground between Chaucer's Dreamer and Eagle in "The House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Green, Eugene.
Finding Pragmatic Common Ground between Chaucer's Dreamer and Eagle in "The House of Fame."
- Published
- Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 165-83.
- Description
- Explores the pragmatic linguistic devices Chaucer uses to establish a common ground of communication and "create convincing exchanges" between the Dreamer and the Eagle in HF, identifying and analyzing various concerns: "back-channel," lexicon, "turn-taking," "polarizing," and more.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification