Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuko Tagaya and Masahiko Kanno, eds. Words and Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Masa Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2004), pp.105-28.
Discusses ambiguity in the character of Henryson's Cresseid from a lexical and semantic point of view, with a comparative note on Chaucer's Criseyde and Shakespeare's Cressida.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Noboru Harano et al., eds. Travels Through Space and Time in Medieval Europe. (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2004), pp. 97-140.
Nakao discusses traveling as physical movement through space and mental movement through time. A dual space-time scheme is central to the structure of CT and contributes to the rise of dualistic interpretations of such words and phrases as "licour"…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Michiko Ogura, ed. Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English: Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology (Frankfurt am Main, 2006), pp. 51-73.
Nakao assesses Criseyde's comment on trusting Pandarus (TC 3.587) as ambiguous, considering "phonological, morphological, lexical/collocational, syntactic and pragmatic" aspects of Chaucer's use of "moste" as an auxiliary and an adverb.
Briefly sketches the methodology of Nakao's 2004 study The Structure of Chaucer's Ambiguity, proposes a framework to describe how Chaucer's ambiguity may occur, and examines TC 5.1084 within that framework.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Jacek Fisiak and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 321-45.
Nakao examines uses of gentil in TC, MerT, and FranT, gauging the level of subjectivity involved on the part of the character, the narrator, and/or the author, modified by the audience's subjective understanding. Poses a "double-prism" structure…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 143-57.
Draws from TC examples of how voice contributes to ambiguity, considering how "suprasegmentals" and various phonetic and prosodic features contribute to voice.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Tomonori Matsushita, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds. From Beowulf to Caxton: Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts (Bern: Lang, 2011), pp. 111-49.
Variants in TC passages depicting Criseyde's fluctuating affections reveal the reactions of both early scribes and modern editors to ambiguity in Chaucer's language.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 47-77.
Proposes that Th is not merely a parody of romance but is composed according to the principle of "progressive diminution," demonstrating its "prototype" and "extension" from geographical to temporal, social, to linguistic "domains."
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 358-79.
Examines the implications of "siege" in TC from cognitive viewpoints. Argues that the siege of Troy as a prototype of "siege" is repeated in metaphorically diversified forms such as Pandarus's enclosure of Troilus and Criseyde, and that this "siege"…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.
Based on Nakao's earlier book, "The Structure of Chaucer's Ambiguity" (2004; in Japanese), this republished English version analyzes the "parole aspect of language" within an expanded study of ambiguity in TC. Proposes an original theoretical…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 241-60.
Analyzes Chaucer's presentation of speech and thought in TC and seeks to show the way the "conceptual blending" of different subjects occurs in it.
Argues that the scheme of "diminution" penetrates every dimension of Th and discusses how the meanings are generated and complicated through combination of different dimensions. In Japanese.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Bulletin of University Education Center, Fukuyama University Studies in Higher Education 5 (2019): 3-22.
Analyzes the semantics of the use of the present tense in the narrative parts of TC using V.176-96 as an example and applying the "four-layered semantic structures (referential, textual, expressive and metalinguistic)" proposed by Fleischman (1990).…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Bulletin of University Education Center, Fukuyama University Studies in Higher Education 7 (2021): 117-38.
Analyzes the structure and function of reporting verbs, such as "seyde" and "quod, "in representing speech and thought in TC from a variety of viewpoints, including syntactical position of the reporting verbs, balance of direct and indirect…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Jonathan Fruoco, ed. Polyphony and the Modern (New York Routledge, 2021), pp. 169-91.
Offers a technical linguistic analysis of STR (speech and thought representation) in TC, theorizing a hierarchical "structure of subjectivities" to examine samples from the poem, attending to nuances latent in diction, situation, point of view,…
Nakao, Yoshiyuli.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013.
Proposes a theoretical framework, a "double prism structure," to examine ambiguity attributable to textual, interpersonal, and linguistic "domains" in TC.
Nakayasu, Minako.
Liliana Sikorska and Marcin Krygier, eds. Evur Happie & Glorious, Ffor I Hafe at Will Grete Riches (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 41-60.
Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer's "discourse pragmatic" uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of "present and past tenses in discourse" where the narrator "dynamically…
Nakayasu, Minako.
Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre and Javier Calle Martın, eds. Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change (New York: Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 243-59.
Conducts a "systematic analysis of the synchronic spatio-temporal systems" in Astr, taking "deixis into consideration," defining terms, and analyzing the interactions of "pronouns, demonstratives, adverbs, tense forms, and modals," along with…
Nakayasu, Minako.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 46.4 (2011): 73-96.
Analyzes the 125 instances of the modals "shall" and "will" in GP, KnT, and WBPT in their "syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects," gauging degrees of modality, contingency, futurity, grammaticalization, speech-act functions (e.g., prediction,…
Nakayasu, Minako.
Peter Petré, H. Cuyckens, and Frauke D'Hoedt, eds. Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2018), pp. 125-50.
Describes factors involved in English language spatio-temporal systems, i.e., the uses of pronouns, demonstratives, adverbs, verb tenses, and modals that indicate proximity and distance between speakers in space and time. Draws evidence from Astr and…
