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What to expect from a poem? The primacy of rhyme in college students’ conceptions of poetry

  • 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.

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Author:Stefan BlohmORCiDGND, Christine A. KnoopORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125165
ISBN:978-951-858-589-6
ISSN:2669-9583
Parent Title (English):Rhyme and rhyming in verbal art, language, and song
Series (Serial Number):Studia Fennica Folkloristica (25)
Publisher:Finnish Literature Society
Place of publication:Helsinki
Editor:Venla Sykäri, Nigel Fabb
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Date of Publication (online):2024/02/22
Publishing Institution:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:cognitive salience; genre conceptions; genre expectations; poetry comprehension
GND Keyword:Erwartung; Lyrik / Lyrik; Reim; Verstehen
First Page:264
Last Page:276
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International