TY - BOOK AU - Bauer,Matthias AU - Bade,Nadine AU - Beck,Sigrid AU - Brockmann,Saskia AU - Riecker,Susanne AU - Zirker,Angelika TI - Linguistics Meets Literature: More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110638806 AV - PS1541.Z5 B36 2020 U1 - 400 PY - 2020///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Linguistics in literature KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Emily Dickinson KW - Formal Semantics KW - Literary Linguistics N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646825 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110646825 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110646825/original ER -