Spatio-Temporal Systems in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Nakayasu, Minako.

Title
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