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Parallelisms and deviations: two fundamentals of an aesthetics of poetic diction

  • 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.

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Author:Winfried MenninghausORCiDGND, Valentin WagnerORCiDGND, Ines SchindlerORCiDGND, Christine A. KnoopORCiDGND, Stefan BlohmORCiDGND, Klaus FrielerORCiDGND, Mathias ScharingerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125036
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0424
ISSN:1471-2970
Parent Title (English):Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publisher:Royal Society
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2023
Date of Publication (online):2024/02/15
Publishing Institution:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:aesthetic evaluation; aesthetics; cognitive processing; deviation; parallelism; poetic diction; poetic language; predictive coding
GND Keyword:Abweichung; Couplet; Dichtersprache; Kognitive Linguistik; Lyrik / Lyrik; Parallelismus; Sprichwort; Ästhetik
Volume:379
Issue:1895
Page Number:11
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik
Program areas:P1: Interaktion
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International