2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies in Medieval English Mystical Literature
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22520281
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima Shudo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 神秘主義 / 中世英文学 / 史的語用論 / ジャンル / 文体論 / ポライトネス理論 / 談話ストラテジー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study started with the purpose that it would map the relationships between medieval English mystical works, such as Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and Margery Kempe’s The Books of Margery Kempe, and related prose works in other genres, from two viewpoints of pragmatic studies: ‘politeness strategies’ and ‘discourse strategies’. It was found that there are many similarities as well as differences in the strategies the authors adopted in the above-mentioned two mystical texts.
In the course of this study, it was found that relationships between medieval English mystical works and works in other genres cannot be easily explained only by these two types of pragmatic analyses and that we need to think of the relationships in other aspects as well. Therefore, an ongoing part of this research project is to analyze authors’ persuasive strategies toward the reader.
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| Free Research Field |
中世英語宗教散文の語用論的分析
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