TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Blohm, Stefan
A1  - Knoop, Christine A.
ED  - Sykäri, Venla
ED  - Fabb, Nigel
T1  - What to expect from a poem? The primacy of rhyme in college students’ conceptions of poetry
T2  - Rhyme and rhyming in verbal art, language, and song
N2  - We report results from an exploratory study of college students’ conceptions of poetry in which we asked them to name three things they expect from a poem. Frequency- and list-based analyses of their responses revealed that they primarily expect poems to rhyme, but they also identified a number of form-, content-, and reception-related genre expectations, which we discuss in relation to relevant previous research. We propose that rhyme’s predominance in college students’ genre expectations reflects its perceptual and cognitive salience during incremental poetry comprehension rather than its frequency in contemporary poetic practice. Our results characterize the genre conceptions of the population that empirical studies of poetry comprehension typically investigate, and thus provide relevant background information for the interpretation of empirical 
findings in this field.
T3  - Studia Fennica Folkloristica - 25 
KW  - Lyrik / Lyrik
KW  - Reim
KW  - Erwartung
KW  - Verstehen
KW  - genre expectations
KW  - genre conceptions
KW  - cognitive salience
KW  - poetry comprehension
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125165
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125165
SN  - 2669-9583
SS  - 2669-9583
SN  - 978-951-858-589-6
SB  - 978-951-858-589-6
SP  - 264
EP  - 276
PB  - Finnish Literature Society
CY  - Helsinki
ER  -