The Creation of 'Tone' in Chaucer's Poetic Lines: A Tentative Study on Chaucer's Emotive Language

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  • チョーサーの詩行におけるトーンの醸成 : チョーサーの情緒的言語研究試論
  • チョーサー ノ シギョウ ニオケル トーン ノ ジョウセイ : チョーサー ノ ジョウショテキ ゲンゴ ケンキュウ シロン

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The author views and grasps the essence of Chaucer's poetic language as an emotive one. That kind of emotiveness is found, first, in the content itself of the poet's works; that is, in the stories themselves that describe the courtly-love world or the more realistic world of common people. But, the author thinks, that kind of emotiveness is not only created by work's content itself but also by a variety of extra and additional linguistic elements used in the lines, such as intensive adverbials (divided into 'degree-intensifiers' and 'absolute-intensifiers' in this article), modal or asseveratory adverbials (called 'modal-emphasizers' here), intensifying similes and metaphors, swearings or oaths, invocational words, and many others. These emphatic elements (called 'tone-elevatiors' here) may be linguistically extra or additional ones in Chaucer's poetic lines, but they are definitely contributing to the creation of the emotive or emotional atmosphere that is hanging over the lines. This tentative study aims to give a sketch of these linguistically emphatic elements and further a few examples which show how the poet uses them for his stylistic purposes.

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