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[Un]Licensed Riot: Prodigality, Hypocrisy, and Guild Discourse in Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale

Nalans, 2022
Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale demonstrates the characterization of a riotous apprentice, the narrative depiction of conflict between that apprentice and his master, and that master’s issuing of a questionable “papir” of “acquitance” (4404 & 4411) to suggest ...
David Pecan
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Interrelationships between Language and Literature from Old English to the Modern Period [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012
Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.
Esmail Zare Behtash
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Social elements in the Norman French influence on English [PDF]

Hum, 2020
The aim of the paper is to show the influence of Norman French on English after the Norman Conquest. The research is limited to vocabulary analysis as well as social changes that were introduced by William the Conqueror and made it possible for the ...
Zoran Pervan
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Estudio léxico del campo de la enfermedad en un manuscrito medieval inglés (G.U.L. MS Hunter 509, fols. 1r-167v)

Odisea, 2017
Resumen: Este artículo presenta un estudio del léxico referente al ámbito científico de la medicina que se encuentra recogido en la obra System of Physic, depositada en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Glasgow (MS Hunter 509).
Laura Esteban-Segura
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An analysis of the punctuation of the Middle English "Letter of Ipocras" in London, Wellcome Library, MS 405

Journal of English Studies, 2019
Punctuation in early English has been traditionally considered to lack consistency and systematicity, as shown in the relevant literature. Yet, recent research has uncovered that individual texts followed particular punctuation practices regarding signs ...
Teresa Marqués-Aguado
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Functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL from a diachronic perspective

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022
The research traces the development of functional transposition of TILL and UNTIL in English. The study covers 16 historical periods and is based on 1,243 examples extracted from the writings from 850 to 1710, which are analyzed without resorting to any ...
Kovbasko Yurii
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The Advent of the Printing Press and Britain’s Multilingual Textual Culture, 1471–1510

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023
This article discusses the effects the new technology of printing had on the rich and multilingual textual culture of late medieval Britain. Before setting up his press in Westminster, William Caxton had books published in Latin, French and English.
Jordi Sánchez-Martí
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Rhetorical Re-analysis of Metadiscourse Items in Henry Daniel’s Middle English Prologue to Liber Uricrisiarum

, 2021
This study introduces a method in which linguistic items from different metadiscourse classes are remapped onto the rhetorical plane defined by the Aristotelian concepts ethos, pathos, and logos.
Mäkinen, Martti
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Sawyer, Daniel. 2024. How to Read Middle English Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198895237.

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Book review of Sawyer, Daniel. 2024. How to Read Middle English Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198895237.
Laurie Atkinson
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Challenges and Strategies of Translating Arabic Novels into English: Evidence from Al-Sanousi’s Fiʾrān Ummī Hissa

Open Cultural Studies
This research investigated the strategies adopted to overcome the constraints encountered in the English translation of the Arabic novel Fiʾrān Ummī Hissa in light of Mughazy’s (2016) typology of equivalence and Baker’s (1992) strategies for dealing with
Al-Sharif Luma, Al-Abbas Linda
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