Uni-Tübingen

A2

Interpretability in Context

The work of project A2 in the third phase informed research on speech acts. It brought to light under-investigated speech acts occurring in non-assertive linguistic situations. In addition to an interpretive analysis of these speech acts, it contributed to our understanding of the semantics/pragmatics interface in general. The fictional nature of the texts we were investigating was contrasted with non-fictional utterance types and highlighted the component parts that go into mapping a semantic to a pragmatic meaning. Various aspects of this mapping such as presuppositions, reference, speech acts, etc. were investigated. The notion of context was examined from the perspective of fictional and iterated contexts.

Publications

  • Armenante, G. & Braun, J. (forthcoming). Fake past in conditionals and attitude reports – A crosslinguistic correlation. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, A. Konietzko & S. von Wietersheim (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data. University of Tübingen.
  • Bauer, M. & Beck, S. (forthcoming). Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation. In E. Maier & A. Stokke (Eds.), The Language of Fiction. Oxford University Press.
  • Bauer, M., Beck, S., Braun, J., Riecker, S. & Zirker, A. (submitted). Multiple contexts in drama: The example of Henry V.
  • Rapp, I., Riecker, S., Brockmann, S., Fortmann, C. & Bozenhard, J. (accepted). Bare root infinitives in German: Facets of meaning in poetry and non-literary discourse. International Journal of Literary Linguistics.
  • Bauer, M., Beck, S., Riecker, S., Brockmann, S., Zirker, A., Bade, N., Dörge, C. & Braun, J. (2020). Linguistics Meets Literature. More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Bade, N. & Buscher, F. (2019). An experimental comparison of two reinterpretation strategies: Benefits and challenges of using fictional contexts in experimental studies. In M. Störzer, S. Featherston, A. Gattnar & R. Hörnig (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory (pp. 166-186). Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
  • Zirker, A. (2019). William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry. Manchester University Press.
  • Brockmann, S., McConnell, S., Hacquard, V. & Lidz, J. (2018). Children's comprehension of pronouns and definites. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, online publication system.
  • Zirker, A. (2018). "All about fishes"? The riddle of Humpty Dumpty’s song and recursive understanding in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Victorian Poetry 56(1), 81-102.
  • Bade, N. & Beck, S. (2017). Lyrical texts as a data source for linguistics. Linguistische Berichte 251, 317-356.
  • Bauer, M. & Brockmann, S. (2017). The iconicity of literary interpretation. In A. Zirker et al. (Ed.), Dimensions of Iconicity. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Bauer, M. & Zirker, A. (2017). Explanatory annotation of literary texts and the reader: Seven types of problems. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 11(2), 212-232.
  • Brockmann, S., Riecker, S., Bade, N., Bauer, M., Beck, S. & Zirker, A. (2017). FictionalAssert and Implicatures. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, R. Steinberg, B. Umbreit & J. Wallis (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2016. Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives. University of Tübingen, online publication system, http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-19038.
  • Bade, N. (2016). Obligatory Presupposition Triggers in Discourse: Empirical Foundations of the Theories Maximize Presupposition and Obligatory Implicatures. Doctoral dissertation, University of Tübingen. University of Tübingen, online publication system.
  • Dörge, C. & Bade, N. (2016). Identifying referents in Emily Dickinsons's 'If it had no pencil'. Forum for Modern Language Studies 52(4), 393-413.
  • Zirker, A. (2016a). ‘If poetry could truly tell it backwards, / then it would’: Alternative Geschichtsentwürfe und Kontrafaktualität in zeitgenössischer englischer Dichtung zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 57, 219-240.
  • Zirker, A. (2016b). ‘Oh make thy selfe with holy mourning blacke’: Aspects of drama and performance in John Donne’s Holy Sonnet ‘Oh My Black Soule.’ ZAA 64(3).
  • Bade, N., Bauer, M., Beck, S., Dörge, C. & Zirker, A. (2015). Ambiguity in Shakespeare's sonnet 138. In S. Winkler (Ed.), Ambiguity: Language and Communication (pp. 89-209). Berlin: De Gruyter. 
  • Bauer, M., Bade, N., Beck, S., Dörge, C., von Eckartsberg, B., Ottschofski, S., Niefer, J. & Zirker, A. (2015). Emily Dickinson’s “My life had stood a loaded gun”— An interdisciplinary analysis. Journal of Literary Semantics 44(2), 115-140.
  • Bauer, M. (2015a). The Chimes and the rhythm of life. In J. Frenk & L. Steveker (Eds.), Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change (pp. 111-127). New York: AMS Press. 
  • Bauer, M. (2015b). Religious metaphysical poetry: George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. In S. Baumbach, B. Neumann & A. Nünning (Eds.), A History of British Poetry (pp. 107-121). Trier: WVT.
  • Bauer, M. (2015c). Secret wordplay and what it may tell us. In A. Zirker & E. Winter-Froemel (Eds.), Wordplay and Metalinguistic/Metadiscursive Reflection: Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection (pp. 269-288). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Bauer, M. & Beck, S. (2014). On the meaning of fictional texts. In D. Gutzmann, J. Köpping & C. Meier (Eds.), Approaches to Meaning (pp. 250-275). Leiden: Brill. 
  • Bauer, M. & Zirker, A. (2014). Dickens and ambiguity: The case of A Tale of Two Cities. In C. Huguet & N. Vanfasse (Eds.), Dickens, Modernism and Modernity (pp. 209-288). Paris: Editions du Sagittaire. 
  • Bauer, M. & Zirker, A. (2013). Sites of death as sites of interaction in Donne and Shakespeare. In J. H. Anderson & J. Vaught (Eds.), Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary (pp. 17-37). New York, NY: Fordham University Press. 
  • Bauer, M. (2010a). Bunyan and the physiognomy of the wor(l)d. In J. Conradie, O. Fischer & C. Ljungberg (Eds.), Signergy (pp. 193-210). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Bauer, M. (2010b). Eating words: Some notes on a metaphor and its use in Much Ado About Nothing. In M. Gymnich & N. Lennartz (Eds.), The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature (pp. 45-58). Göttingen: Bonn University Press.
  • Bauer, M., Bauer, M., Beck, S., Dörge, C., von Eckartsberg, B., Meder, M., Riedel, K., Zimmermann, J. & Zirker, A. (2010). “The Two Coeval Come”: Emily Dickinson and ambiguity. LiLi 40(158), 98-124.
  • Winter-Froemel, E. & Zirker, A. (2010). Ambiguität in der Sprecher-Hörer-Interaktion: Linguistische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven / Ambiguity in speaker-hearer-interaction: Linguistic and literary perspectives. LiLi 40(158), 76-97.
  • Zirker, A. (2010a). Der Pilger als Kind: Spiel, Sprache und Erlösung in Lewis Carrolls Alice-Büchern. Münster: LIT.
  • Zirker, A. (2010b). Don't play with your food? - Edward Lear's nonsense cookery and limericks. In M. Gymnich & N. Lennartz (Eds.), The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature (pp. 237-253). Göttingen: Bonn University Press.
  • Bauer, M. & Beck, S. (2009). Interpretation: Local composition and textual meaning. In M. Albl-Mikasa, S. Braun & S. Kalina (Eds.), Dimensionen der Zweisprachenforschung / Dimensions of Second Language Research: Festschrift für Kurt Kohn (pp. 289-300). Tübingen: Narr.