UID:
almahu_9949065427602882
Format:
1 online resource (VIII, 254 p.)
ISBN:
9783110646825
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9783110696271
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 329
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Foreword --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Part I: Individual Analyses --
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Introduction --
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I.1 “To pile like Thunder”: Lexical Ambiguity --
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I.2 “You said that I ‘was Great’”: Scales and Contextual Parameters --
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I.3 “I’m Nobody!”: Interpreting Quantifiers --
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I.4 “This was a Poet”: Identifying Referents – Definites and Demonstratives --
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I.5 “If it had no pencil”: Identifying Referents – Pronouns --
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I.6 “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”: Semantic Mismatches and Coercion --
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Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet --
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II.1 The Poet as Linguist --
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II.2 The Linguist as Poet --
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Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work --
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III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics --
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III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies --
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Appendix --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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DG Ebook Package 2020, De Gruyter, 9783110696271
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DG Ebook Package English 2020, De Gruyter, 9783110696288
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De Gruyter English eBooks 2020 - UC, De Gruyter, 9783110659061
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De Gruyter Mouton Frontlist 2020, De Gruyter, 9783110743166
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English, De Gruyter, 9783110704716
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020, De Gruyter, 9783110704518
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EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020 English, De Gruyter, 9783110704761
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020, De Gruyter, 9783110704563
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110642810
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110638806
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110646825
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646825
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