Ælfric's Interjections: Learning to Express Emotion in Late Anglo-Saxon England.

Ælfric's Grammar offers the only theoretical treatment of emotions in Old English. According to Ælfric, it is the special property of interjections that they express emotion. This article explores what it meant for monastic students to learn to express their emotions using Latin interjections, consi...

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Publicado en:Review of English Studies Vol. 69; no. 292; pp. 815 - 832
Autor principal: Hobson, Jacob
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2018
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        Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, ca. 955-ca. 1010
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