Subjectivity in Chaucer: The World behind Middle English *Moten "Must" in "The Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Stadnik, Katarzyna.

Title
Subjectivity in Chaucer: The World behind Middle English *Moten "Must" in "The Knight's Tale."

Published
Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski, and Anna Weremczuk, eds. What's in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 126-39.

Description
Explores how speakers' "understanding of their world and their lives" in KnT is "encoded in language," focusing on uses of the auxiliary "moten" and connecting it with the theme of necessity in the tale. Concludes that, in the terms of cognitive linguistics, KnT reflects that "subjectification is a matter of construal."

Contributor
Adam Głaz, ed.
Hubert Kowalewski, ed.
Anna Weremczuk, ed.

Alternative Title
What's in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Knight and His Tale