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Title:

On the Formulaic Context of the Aural Experience Vocabulary in Middle English

Subject and Keywords:

aural symbols   formulaic   alliterative   rhyme   Middle English

Abstract:

The essay is concerned with the most important words encounteredin the Middle English dialects which were used to describe theaural sensation and the cognitive impact of the sonic stimuli. The argumenttraces the way in which this particular lexical group functionsin the formulaic, as well as habitual collocative structures in both thealliterative and the rhymed poetry of the English later Middle Ages.The analysis of the particular lexical items seeks to relate the semanticnuance which reflects the medieval cognitive specificity to the patternsof systemic distribution of lexical material in the two distinct poetictraditions which relate in various degree and ways to the legacy of theoral culture which was prevalent at the dawn of the medieval period.

Publisher:

CIBRKOP

Date:

2019

Date issued:

2015-

Resource Type:

text

Detailed Type:

czasopisma (wydawnictwa ciągłe)

Identifier:

ISSN 2449–8181

Language:

eng

Rights holder:

Copyright by Instytut Studiów Klasycznych, Sródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych, Pracowania Badan nad Tradycja Oralna, 2016