The Canterbury Tales PDF Geoffrey Chaucer

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But Chaucer’s claims about language are both more complex and more subtle than this, and might be said to occupy the area of thinking that, in its modern form, is usually called ordinary language philosophy. What Chaucer, like such philosophers, wants to say, again and again, is that words are so powerful that they amount to a sort of action. In fact, because we live in and by words, uttering words may constitute the most important actions human beings perform.

To some extent Chaucer makes these points by means of the medieval arts of verbal expression or ‘rhetoric’. The rhetorical manuals available in Chaucer’s day described many sorts of verbal ornament, as well as a variety of ways to amplify a point and make it more affecting or persuasive. Particularly in lengthy descriptions or speeches (as, say, in the Knight’s Tale or the Merchant’s Tale) and even in his more humorous tales (such as the Miller’s T

• Book Name: The Canterbury Tales pdf
• Author Name Geoffrey Chaucer
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2011

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