Images of language in middle english vernacular writings

An exploration of the use of images in Middle English texts, tracing out what can be deduced of a theory of language.

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Tác giả chính: CAWSEY, KATHY
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: [Place of publication not identified] D S BREWER 2020.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv105bbtc
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Vernacular Transformation of the Latin Inheritance: Chaucer's House of Fame
  • 2 Depictions of Oral Language: The Owl and the Nightingale
  • 3 Ideas of Written Language: Merlin's Magical Writing
  • 4 Metaphors of Language and Power: The Tutivillus Tales
  • 5 Disrupting the Power Structures of Language: Wheat and Chaff
  • Conclusions.