The Juxtaposition of Chaucer’s and PDE Epistemic Scenes of Discourse Organization.

Author / Editor
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.

Title
The Juxtaposition of Chaucer’s and PDE Epistemic Scenes of Discourse Organization.

Published
Marcian Grygiel and Robert Kieltyka, eds. Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017 (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 87-97.

Description
Describes Chaucer's uses of "soth," "sothly," "verry," "verrily," and "lye" as epistemic markers, contrasting the density of his usage with that found in present-day English to distinguish between medieval and modern worldviews as, respectively, based on faith and based on fact.

Contributor
Grygiel, Marcian, eds.
Kieltyka, Robert, ed.

Alternative Title
Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies