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.
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