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FictionalAssert and Implicatures

In this paper, we present interdisciplinary work of linguists and literary scholars on the emergence of implicatures in fictional, here particularly lyrical texts. By systematically analysing a small corpus of poems by Emily Dickinson, John Donne, and other poets not discussed here, we show that, due to specific characteristics of the text type, an additional effect of pragmatic interpretation occurs that we call apparent flouting: in poetry, the pragmatic interpretation of the text is achieved in a more complex way than in non-fictional discourse. It requires a speech act operator that is different from Assert (Krifka 1995), which applies to the text as a whole and does not assert its actual truth. Because the pragmatic interpretation of poetry is more complex, cases of ambiguity that put forward several possible readings, for example, are not resolved right away. Rather, all possible readings contribute to the overall meaning of the poem

Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138

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"The two coeval come": Emily Dickinson and ambiguity

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"What could he see but mightily he noted?": Anschauung und Anschaulichkeit in William Shakespeares The Rape of Lucrece

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Kate Modern?: The Taming of the Shrew and the trouble with obedience

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