THE CONDITIONS, CONSEQUENCES, AND STRUCTURE OF DIRECT DISCOURSE IN "BEOWULF": A STUDY OF SPEECH ACTS
Most studies of direct discourse in Old English poetry and especially in Beowulf have ignored the emphasis on speech in Anglo-Saxon society as a form of action similar to yet distinct from other types of human activity. The application of recent sociolinguistic and philosophic insights known collect...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1980
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8101378 |