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“The Man of Law’s Tale: Fusing a Popular English Tradition With Elite Literary Devices.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.4 (2011): 91-114. No medieval writers in the fourteenth century used the popular stories and the artistry of the popular story-teller as abundantly as Chaucer. Chaucer elaborated the popular stories into something new and original in terms of characterization, tone, style and so on. Chaucer positively combined the basic plot of popular stories with new rhetorical skills to create effects that we would not expect from them. Chaucer’s storytelling techniques exploited in the basic pattern of the popular tale for these effects accompany his audience as a co-author in understanding a tale. The Man of Law’s Tale is an appropriate model which shows Chaucer’s ingenious combination of two different literary cultures--the popular literary culture and the elite literary one. In the tale, Chaucer employs his storytelling techniques inherited from his literary predecessors such as Ovid, Jean de Meun, and so on in the plot-line of traditional, popular narrative. (Daegu University)