English in the Middle Ages

Machan, Tim William

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282128.001.0001

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“…Moreover, her French title and strange language, if taken in combination, can lead to the inference that she belongs to the French ethnicity. This raises her to a regal status because the narrative is set in the Post-Conquest England (see 4.x) where French was the language of the kings and the barons (Machan, 2003). The inferred notion of her noble standing is verified to some extent by the fact that she had once enthralled 'pale kings and princess'-both of which share the semantic feature /+royal/-who now admonish the knight of her enthralling powers in a dream (L.37).…”

Section: Narrative Schemementioning

confidence: 99%

Linguistic Parallelism in “La Belle Dame Sans Mercy” by John Keats and Urdu Poem “Husan ki Divy” by Shevan Rizvi

Khan

Umar

2016

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Linguistic parallelism, the tendency of using similar forms together within a continuous discourse, is a very strong linguistic phenomenon in literature. Linguistic parallelism means the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect. In Linguistics parallelism means the use of parallel or similar syntactical structure in a text. Parallelism can be practiced at different levels, i.e. from word to the sentence level. It is common in many languages around the globe. This research work demonstrates that "La Belle Dam Sans Merci" by John Keats and "Husan ki Divy" by Shevan Rizvi exhibit more similarities than differences with regard to this constraint. These two products of literary genius exhibit thematic affinity and formal congruity despite their production in regions separated by miles of land and water, in cultures lacking any shared values, and in languages having no common ancestry. This paper presents linguistic analysis of the two poems in terms of intra textual analysis of the English poem, intra textual analysis of the Urdu poem, and a comparative analysis of both the poems.

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Section: Narrative Schemementioning

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Linguistic Parallelism in “La Belle Dame Sans Mercy” by John Keats and Urdu Poem “Husan ki Divy” by Shevan Rizvi

Khan

Umar

2016

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“…Firstly, it is difficult to establish the relationship between Latin and the two vernaculars (French and English) in terms of usage in different contexts (the king's court, country courts, etc). While there are those who claim that it was only after the Baronial Rebellion (1265) that French started to compete with Latin, other emphasise the fact that there are at least three legal documents in French from the period prior to 1265 (Brand 2000:70; see also Holt 1974;Short 1980;Machan 2003). Furthermore, there is almost no evidence of how these multilingual legal texts were received, and consequently it is almost impossible to ascertain the differences -if any -that may have existed between documents originally drafted Latin or French texts, between the original Latin texts and their French translations, and between the Latin original texts, their French translations and their English translations.…”

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European and Scandinavian Research on Literacy

Melve

2012

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“…R. R. Tolkien (1934). A number of recent publications have continued to raise interesting questions concerning the function of Chaucer’s use of dialect in this tale (Machan 2003; Scase 2002). But, beyond the Reeve’s Tale and the speech of the northern students, we know much less about Chaucer’s use of other words of northern provenance and their relationship to southern synonyms.…”

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