Tense Shift in Chaucer's Narrative Text: With Special Regard to the Synchronization of Subjectivity and Phenomena.”

Author / Editor
Nishihara, Takayuki, and Yoshiyuki Nakao.

Title
Tense Shift in Chaucer's Narrative Text: With Special Regard to the Synchronization of Subjectivity and Phenomena.”

Published
Studies in Education (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) 3 (2022): 120-28.

Description
Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of sentences, and views them as influenced by cognitive subjectivity, orality, and generic/gnomic implications. In Japanese, with English abstract.

Contributor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies