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