Linguistics Meets Literature : : More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson / / Sigrid Beck, Matthias Bauer, Saskia Brockmann, Susanne Riecker, Angelika Zirker, Nadine Bade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Bauer, Matthias,; Bade, Nadine,; Beck, Sigrid,; Brockmann, Saskia ,; Riecker, Susanne ,; Zirker, Angelika,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 329
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 254 p.)

Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines.Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson’s poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level.We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson’s poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Individual Analyses -- Introduction -- I.1 “To pile like Thunder”: Lexical Ambiguity -- I.2 “You said that I ‘was Great’”: Scales and Contextual Parameters -- I.3 “I’m Nobody!”: Interpreting Quantifiers -- I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives -- I.5 “If it had no pencil”: Identifying Referents – Pronouns -- I.6 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”: Semantic Mismatches and Coercion -- Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet -- II.1 The Poet as Linguist -- II.2 The Linguist as Poet -- Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work -- III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics -- III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index