'Nou ondertsand wel'--Metacommunicative Directives in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts
- Author / Editor
- Boggel, Sandra.
'Nou ondertsand wel'--Metacommunicative Directives in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts
- Published
- Thomas Honegger, ed. Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature (Bern: Lang, 2004), pp. 193-222
- Description
- Metacomnmunicative markers are more frequent in Middle English religious texts than in Early Modern English religious texts. Boggel focues on such structural and directional markers as "you must remember this" or "let us first examine." Examples include passages from ParsT.
- Alternative Title
- Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Parson and His Tale.