Infringements, syntactic transgressions and disturbances: for a linguistic analysis based on a frequential study of communicative will in Vittorio Sereni's poetry.

Infringements, syntactic transgressions and disturbances: for a linguistic analysis based on a frequential study of communicative will in Vittorio Sereni's poetry.

Gatti, Luca

The frequency's applied linguistics to the study of corpora - already found in classical tradition - can offer itself as an ancillary tool to stylistic interpretation and con-tent production of a literary author. The proposed contribution intends to "escape" from literary critics: the frequency study of certain language particles applied to a digitized corpus allows to dig deep in the non-grammaticality of Vittorio Sereni, a twentieth-cen-tury's major Italian poet, discovering how an "other reading" could open up meanings that were broken by a "grammatically correct" reading: in other words, from the signifier to the signified. A systematic study of displacements may open new ways of interpreta-tions of defined poetic corpora. Relying on the modern concept of the textual uncon-scious, we discovered in phenomena such as agglutination, adverbial accumulation or syntactic displacements an evidence of painful entropy, not otherwise expressible. Sum-ma of these "unintentional poetics" is the astonishing little poem Un posto di vacanza. The proposed analysis' model is exportable to any other author, in the same way, with the same aims and results.

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2011-05

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