Mediaeval and Modern Metaphorical Concepts of Emotions.

Author / Editor
Strmelj, Lidija.

Title
Mediaeval and Modern Metaphorical Concepts of Emotions.

Published
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14.1 (2014): 37–47.

Description
Assesses examples from GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, and SNPT, deducing that medieval metaphors of emotion are similar to modern ones, although they depend more closely upon social categories, with negative metaphors typical of middle-class speakers, and positive ones associated with the clergy and higher classes. Examines locutions of emotion that pertain to love, jealousy, fear, anger, etc.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale