Euphemistic and Non-Euphemistic Verbs for ‘Die’ in Middle English Chronicles

• Authors: Kłos Małgorzata
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines verbs and verbal expressions for ‘die’ employed in Middle English chronicles. As one of the aims is to find out to what extent the distribution of euphemistic and non-euphemistic verbs and verbal expressions denoting this sense was determined stylistically, both prose and verse works are analyzed, i.e. The Peterborough chronicle 1070–1154, The Brut, or the chronicles of England, Layamon’s Brut, and The anonymous short English metrical chronicle. The textual distribution of the verbs is presented, including both numerical data and a synopsized contextual analysis of particular verbs and expressions

Keywords

EN

Middle English; euphemism; metaphor; chronicles; semantic field; die; French loanwords

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 23/2
• Pages: 77-90

Contributors

author

Kłos Małgorzata

• University of Warsaw

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