Finding Pragmatic Common Ground between Chaucer's Dreamer and Eagle in "The House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Green, Eugene.

Title
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