Literary linguistics

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Under literature Linguistics , in the recent German a combination of linguistic and literary objects, questions, and / or methods understood.

history

While the subject of German studies did not know the separation into linguistics and literary studies in its beginnings, the two sub-disciplines clearly emerged in the second half of the 20th century. The linguistics was and is, in particular, to that material "to" laws, forms and structures "of the language, the Langue ; literary studies, which understands itself as "the analysis of concrete texts and their components" and which "can also (albeit not only) depend on the content", as well as the interpretation of individual linguistic expressions ( slogan ). By the 1960s at the latest, the two sub-disciplines were also institutionally separated (through the denomination of professorships ).

When the new linguistic sub-discipline of text linguistics attracted increasing interest in the 1980s , the divergence was already so advanced that a rapprochement hardly seemed possible. Literary texts as objects of investigation were generally avoided on the linguistic side. Conversely, literary studies largely ignored the new knowledge of linguistics and met the approaches of structuralism with skepticism. According to a widespread opinion in German studies, “[...] literary scholars are neither interested (or able) to find out something about the nature of language in general nor to describe individual languages ​​in their systematics, nor can linguists or want the specific difference in literary terms Texts capture what makes them literature. ”At a conference entitled Linguistics and Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers , which took place in Freiburg in 2009, it was discussed“ whether linguistics and literary studies will merge at the beginning of the 21st century (still) have something to say ”; this question “was answered with great skepticism in the majority of cases; one statement was that the contacts between the two disciplines were primarily of an institutional nature ”.

The separation of the two sub-disciplines appears less pronounced than in German studies in some neighboring philologies , in which the structuralist tradition is stronger in literary studies, for example in Romance studies or Slavic studies . In the English-speaking world, the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) is an institution that deals with literary linguistics. However, there were also attempts at mediation in German studies. The magazine for literary studies and linguistics (LiLi) founded in 1970 stands for this in particular . At the University of Koblenz-Landau there is a master’s degree in “Dynamics of Mediation”, which focuses on the integration of linguistics and literary studies, as well as a junior professorship for integrated German studies; the profile of the institute is that of an "integrated German studies". The European Center for Linguistics focused on “literary linguistic issues and approaches” as a “sensible addition to the traditional range of methods” in the context of two events and thus “set an example for a stronger orientation of German studies on literary linguistic research”.

terminology

The term literary linguistics is not meant as a determinative compound , but as a “parenthesis-copulative compound”, that is, it is “not to be understood as 'linguistics that deals with literature', but should make literary studies and linguistics appear to be of equal weight”. According to a few documents that go back to the early 1990s, the expression appears programmatically for the first time in 2009: as the title of a Germanic course. In 2013 it was taken up in the title of a conference that took place at the University of Vechta. This was followed by the Internet portal “Literaturlinguistik. An access ", which is to" function as a central presentation location for literary linguistic research projects - scientific as well as didactic - and also as a forum and contact exchange ". Shortly thereafter, literary linguistics can be found, for example, as the title of a master’s seminar at the University of Kiel (winter semester 2015/16), as a search category for the Essen linguistics server LINSE or as a subject keyword for the Winter- Verlag. Other terms are linguistic literary studies and, in the English-speaking area, literary linguistics ; for example, the University of Nottingham offers a Masters course with this title; The Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has published the journal Literary Linguistics since 2012 .

Content

From a literary linguistic point of view, linguistics and literary studies also have their value and their justification independently of one another. As a combination of literary and linguistic subjects and methods, literary linguistics merely represents an additional research perspective. It is based on the assumption that “it is sensible and desirable for each side to get to know newer developments 'in relation to': be it from unexpected proximity be it to gain productive impetus from stimulating alienation ”. In principle, literary linguistic approaches can appear very different: for example in the form of "literary hermeneutics , narrative theory , stylistics , language and literary didactics , text type interpretation, discourse semantics or image linguistics ". The “materiality of the text” is postulated as a “common basis for literary and linguistic work”; texts are usually described as linguistic signs with a grammatically and semantically complex structure. Linguistic interpretive approaches can be applied to literary texts just as, conversely, the transfer of literary studies models to non-literary texts is possible. Sociolinguistic , specifically variety linguistic perspectives, for example, can enrich the study of the role of dialect in literature. As literary linguistics, lexicographical descriptions of the vocabulary of individual literary authors such as the Goethe dictionary or epochs such as the projects Classic Vocabulary or central terms of the classical-romantic “art period” appear .

Literature (selection)

  • Jochen A. Bär: Hermeneutic Linguistics. Theory and practice of grammatical-semantic interpretation. Fundamentals of a system of understanding. De Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-040519-4 .
  • Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen (eds.): Literary linguistics - philological bridging. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2015. ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 .
  • Anne Betten, Ulla Fix, Berbeli Wanning (ed.): Handbook Language in Literature. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin / Boston 2017 (Handbooks Language Knowledge 17). ISBN 978-3-11-029789-8 .
  • Anne Betten, Jürgen Schiewe (Ed.): Language - Literature - Literary Language. Linguistic contributions. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2011 (Philological Studies and Sources 234). ISBN 978-3-503-12294-3 .
  • Ulla Fix: Language in literature and in everyday life. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86596-369-7 .
  • Monika Fludernik, Daniel Jacob (Ed.): Linguistics and Literary Studies / Linguistics and Literary Studies. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-034750-0 .
  • Michael Hoffmann, Christine Keßler (ed.): Relationships between linguistics and literary studies. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Bern 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-39966-8 .
  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer: Linguistics and literature. In: Interfaces of German Linguistics. Edited by Markus Steinbach et al. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2007, pp. 257–290.
  • Hans Lösener: Between word and word. Interpretation and text analysis. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-7705-4235-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Busse, Wolfgang Teubert: Is discourse a linguistic object? On the method question of historical semantics. In: Concept history as discourse history. Methodological questions and research results in historical semantics. Edited by Dietrich Busse, Fritz Hermanns, Wolfgang Teubert. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1994, ISBN 978-3-53112-603-6 , pp. 10-28, here: p. 12.
  2. ↑ Peter Auer: About the topos of the lost unity of German studies. In: Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 172 (2013), pp. 16–28, here: p. 16.
  3. ^ Daniel Jacob: Linguistics and literary studies: responsibilities and encounters. In: Linguistics and Literary Studies / Linguistics and Literary Studies. Edited by Monika Fludernik, Daniel Jacob. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, pp. 3–33, here: p. 3 f.
  4. ↑ Michael Hoffmann, Christine Keßler (ed.): Relationships between linguistics and literary studies. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Bern 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-39966-8 .
  5. ^ Heiko Hausendorf: Between linguistics and literary studies. Textuality revisited. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 36 (2008), pp. 319–342.
  6. ↑ Ulla Fix: Literary Studies and Linguistics. The “LiLi” project from today's linguistic point of view. In: Ulla Fix: Language in literature and in everyday life. Selected essays. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86596-369-7 , pp. 7–33.
  7. ↑ Jörg Meibauer: For a German studies of interfaces. In: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 172 (2013), pp. 34–37.
  8. ↑ Monika Fludernik, Daniel Jacob (Ed.): Linguistics and Literary Studies / Linguistics and Literary Studies. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-034750-0 .
  9. ^ University of Koblenz-Landau, Master's degree in German Studies: Dynamics of Mediation (accessed on September 29, 2017).
  10. ↑ University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for German Studies: Institute profile (accessed on September 29, 2017).
  11. ↑ European Center for Linguistics: Summer School 2017 (accessed September 29, 2017).
  12. ↑ Summer School “Historical Uncertainty in the Mirror of Linguistic Constructions. Linguistic and literary approaches to the reported and narrated past ”(July 28 to August 1, 2014), summer school“ Articulations of the Insecure ”(July 24 to 30, 2017).
  13. ↑ Terry Albrecht: Upheavals and war leave traces. In: Deutschlandfunk (August 7, 2014) (accessed September 30, 2017).
  14. ^ A b c Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen: literary linguistics - an introduction. In: literary linguistics - philological bridging. Edited by Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 , pp. 7-18, here: p. 11.
  15. ↑ For example with Clemens Knobloch: On the status and history of the text concept. In: LiLi 77 (1990), pp. 66-87, here: pp. 68 f.
  16. ↑ http://www.baer-linguistik.de/lehre/chronologie_2009.htm (accessed on May 15, 2015).
  17. ^ Conference “Literary Linguistics - Building Philological Bridges” (October 23-25, 2013) (accessed on May 16, 2015).
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  19. ↑ Seminar schedule ( memento of the original from September 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 30, 2017). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germanistik.uni-kiel.de
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  22. ↑ Peter Finke: Constructive Functionalism. The epistemological basis of an empirical theory of literature. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1989 (conception empirical literature 2), ISBN 978-3-528-07322-0 , p. 31.
  23. ↑ http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/courses/english/literary-linguistics-ma.aspx (accessed on May 16, 2015).
  24. ↑ http://www.ijll.uni-mainz.de/index.php/ijll/index (accessed on June 12, 2015).
  25. ^ Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen: literary linguistics - an introduction. In: literary linguistics - philological bridging. Edited by Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 , pp. 7-18, here: pp. 9 f.
  26. ^ Jochen A. Bär, Literary Verbal Analysis. A literary linguistic approach to interpretation using the example of the thunderstorm motif in Thomas Mann's “Death in Venice”. In: literary linguistics - philological bridging. Edited by Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 , pp. 99-127.
  27. ↑ Pamela Steen, The communicative identity of the trickster. A linguistic and cultural semiotic investigation into the construction of identity in a marginalized group. Winter, Heidelberg 2015 (Oralingua 10). ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 .
  28. ^ Leonhard Herrmann, Beat Siebenhaar : Fictional Languages. How the dialect gets into literature - a dialectological and literary science teaching and research project. In: literary linguistics - philological bridging. Edited by Jochen A. Bär, Jana-Katharina Mende, Pamela Steen. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66654-8 , pp. 47-73.
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