Chaucer's Choices - Through the looking-glass of medieval imagery

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Katarzyna Stadnik is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Linguistics at Maria Curie-Sk¿odowska 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.

Product details

• Authors: Katarzyna Stadnik
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783631663837
• ISBN: 978-3-631-66383-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Lodz Studies in Language; Lódz Studies in Language; Lodz Studies in Language
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures