Spatio-Temporal Systems in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Nakayasu, Minako.
Spatio-Temporal Systems in Chaucer.
- Published
- 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.
- Description
- 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 from CT (GP, KnT, and WBPT), contrasting their differing spatio-temporal systems as "handbook" and "fiction" respectively: Astr is more "proximal" via first-person address, and CT more "distal" in its more "complex discourse structure."
- Contributor
- Petré, Peter, ed.
Cuyckens, H., ed.
Frauke D’Hoedt, ed
- Alternative Title
- Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Canterbury Tales--General