Yoshiyuki Nakao & Yoko Iyeiri (eds.), Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Osaka Books, 2013)

Studies in the History of the English Language, No. 3

Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspective has been edited by Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri. It is a booklet of the series, Studies in the History of the English Language (The Japanese Association for Studies in the History of the English Language) and includes six papers on Chaucer and cognition written by Japanese Chaucerians and Middle English specialists.

Studies in the History of the English Language, 2013-B
ISBN:9784990458430
iv + 151 pages

Contents

Contributors

Introduction – Yoshiyuki Nakao

Cognitive Aspects of Negation in The Tale of Melibee, The Parson’s Tale, and A Treatise on the Astrolabe – Yoko Iyeiri

Chaucer’s Imaginative and Metaphorical Description of Nature – Akiyuki Jimura

Progressive Diminution in ‘Sir Thopas’ – Yoshiyuki Nakao

Variation in the Use of Think in The Summoner’s Tale, Line 2204 – Hideshi Ohno

Namely and Other Particularisers in Chaucer’s English – Ayumi Miura

A Model of the Ideal and Natural in Social Groups in Mum and the Sothsegger: A Metaphorical Analysis – Yoshiko Asaka

Index

Link to the list of the published volumes of this series