Title: Discourse and dominion in the fourteenth century
First published: 1995
Description: This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literary than scholarship has previously recognized. In contrast to the view of orality and literacy as contending forces of opposition, the book maintains that the power of language consists in displacement, the capacity of one channel of language to take the place of the other, to make the source disappear into the copy.

Appreciating the interplay between oral and written language makes possible for the first time a way of understanding the high literate achievements of this century in relation to momentous developments in social and political life.
Subjects: Civilization, Discourse analysis, Literary, English literature, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Languages, Literary Discourse analysis, Medieval Philosophy, Oral tradition, Oral-formulaic analysis, Philosophy, Medieval, Politics and literature, Written communication, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Discourse analysis, Great britain, history, medieval period, 1066-1485, Great britain, civilization, Great britain, languages, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Tradition orale, Politique et littérature, Histoire, Communication écrite, Discours littéraire, Analyse des formules orales, Philosophie médiévale, Grande-Bretagne, Historiographie, Civilisation, Langues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Speech, Middle English, Language and languages, Engels, Schrijftaal, Mondelinge overlevering, Bellettrie
Places: England, Great Britain
Time periods: 1066-1485, 14th century, Middle English, 1100-1500, To 1500
LC classification: PR275.O72 G45 1995