TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Wagner, Valentin
A1  - Schindler, Ines
A1  - Knoop, Christine A.
A1  - Blohm, Stefan
A1  - Frieler, Klaus
A1  - Scharinger, Mathias
T1  - Parallelisms and deviations: two fundamentals of an aesthetics of poetic diction
JF  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
N2  - Poetic diction routinely involves two complementary classes of features: (i) parallelisms, i.e. repetitive patterns (rhyme, metre, alliteration, etc.) that enhance the predictability of upcoming words, and (ii) poetic deviations that challenge standard expectations/predictions regarding regular word form and order. The present study investigated how these two prediction-modulating fundamentals of poetic diction affect the cognitive processing and aesthetic evaluation of poems, humoristic couplets and proverbs. We developed quantitative measures of these two groups of text features. Across the three text genres, higher deviation scores reduced both comprehensibility and aesthetic liking whereas higher parallelism scores enhanced these. The positive effects of parallelism are significantly stronger than the concurrent negative effects of the features of deviation. These results are in accord with the hypothesis that art reception involves an interplay of prediction errors and prediction error minimization, with the latter paving the way for processing fluency and aesthetic liking.
KW  - poetic language
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - parallelism
KW  - deviation
KW  - predictive coding
KW  - Parallelismus
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Dichtersprache
KW  - Abweichung
KW  - Kognitive Linguistik
KW  - Lyrik / Lyrik
KW  - Sprichwort
KW  - Couplet
KW  - poetic diction
KW  - cognitive processing
KW  - aesthetic evaluation
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125036
SN  - 1471-2970
SS  - 1471-2970
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0424
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0424
VL  - 379
IS  - 1895
SP  - 11
S1  - 11
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  -