The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe
- Author / Editor
- Amsler, Mark.
The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe
- Published
- Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- 264 pp.
- Description
- Studies "pragmatics as an important aspect of premodern understanding of language and meaning," exploring "pragmatic ideas and metapragmatic awareness" in various kinds of medieval discourse. Details the contexts, functions, and significations of the interjection "allas" in portions of CT and TC, and examines MilPT for ways it "deconstructs the notion of stable, authorial, intentional meaning and explores narrative dialogism and the pragmatics of identity and affective power for comic and satiric effect."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General
Troilus and Criseyde