Chaucer's Historical Present: A Discourse-Pragmatic Perspective.
- Author / Editor
- Nakayasu, Minako.
Chaucer's Historical Present: A Discourse-Pragmatic Perspective.
- Published
- Liliana Sikorska and Marcin Krygier, eds. Evur Happie & Glorious, Ffor I Hafe at Will Grete Riches (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 41-60.
- Description
- 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 synchronises the story with the here and now of the hearers with the aid of the present tense, while employing the past tense to signify a segment of discourse."
- Contributor
- Sikorska, Liliana, ed.
Krygier, Marcin, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Evur Happie & Glorious, Ffor I Hafe at Will Grete Riches
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification