Chaucer's Choices: Through the Looking-Glass of Medieval Imagery

ISBN-13: 9783631663837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 222 str.

Katarzyna Stadnik

Opis

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, -Knight s Tale- and -Troilus and Criseyde-. The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural transmission, providing insights into the relation between Chaucer s linguistic usage and the late medieval symbolic tradition. Undertaken within the Cognitive Linguistic framework, the research indicates the usefulness of adopting a panchronic perspective on the development of language and culture."

Spis treści

Contents: Sociocultural situatedness of the language user - Idiosyncrasy of human cognition - Panchrony: Towards extended humanity - Language as a memory medium - Imagery of necessite in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale.

O autorze

Katarzyna Stadnik is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Linguistics at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Her research interests include issues such as the role of language as an aid to cultural transmission, the sociocultural situatedness of the language user, and late medieval visual culture.