Aspects of Cognitive Poetics

Tsur, Reuven

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“…And this is a point at which humans and zombies part company, and at which the conditions for cognitive being run up against some limits. Zombies are incapable of nuance, of sensitivity, and so while they might have been able to fit the older definition of cognition -which distinguished emotion from reason -they don't fit the current definition which incorporates 'all information-processing activities of the brain, ranging from the analysis of immediate stimuli to the organisation of subjective experience' (Tsur, 2002).…”

Section: The Cognitive Analoguementioning

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Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope

Webb

Byrnand²

2008

Body & Society

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Zombie as Trope'Zombies are cool', said a graduate student at a recent seminar. 'Zombies are vile', said a film studies lecturer. 'Zombies are whitey's way of expressing the terror of alterity', said a presenter at a recent conference.All true, perhaps. There are many points of attraction in the zombie character, and in a period when zombies seem to be permeating popular culture and emerging in scholarly literature, there are perhaps as many ways of approaching and evaluating zombies as there are people who approach and evaluate. Those 'people' include novelists, movie-makers, cultural theorists, adolescents, philosophers, and the mass of fans, each of whom has a solid idea about what constitutes a zombie, what constitutes a seminal zombie text, and why it is worth researching zombies. Because the idea of zombie travels so widely, and across so many fields, it has become a very familiar character, one that participates in narratives of the body, of life and death, of good and evil; one that gestures to alterity, racism, species-ism, the inescapable, the immutable. Thus it takes us to 'the other side' -alienation, death, and what is worse than death: the state of being undead.But what is this thing called zombie? Although they are, of course, a fantasy, we know enormous amounts about them -their tastes, appearance, biology,

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Section: The Cognitive Analoguementioning

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Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope

Webb

Byrnand²

2008

Body & Society

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“…Space management could be linked to Gestalt theory as well. Thus, Tsur (2002) stated that lines can be perceived as perceptual wholes (gestalts), if they can be contained in working memory, which functions in the acoustic mode like an echo box. Similarly to Turner and Poeppel (1983), Crystal (2008) saw the iambic pentameter line as optimal for neuronal processing: due to working memory limitations, five stressed syllables are the maximum people can comfortably handle within a single rhythm/tone-unit (but see Fabb, 2013, for a critique of this position).…”

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Following in Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss’ footsteps: A neurocognitive poetics investigation of eye movements during the reading of Baudelaire’s ‘Les Chats’

Fechino¹,

Jacobs²,

Lüdtke³

2020

JEMR

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Following Jakobson and Levi-Strauss famous analysis of Baudelaire’s poem ‘Les Chats’ (‘The Cats’), in the present study we investigated the reading of French poetry from a Neurocognitive Poetics perspective. Our study is exploratory and a first attempt in French, most previous work having been done in either German or English (e.g., Jacobs, 2015a, 2018a, b; Müller et al., 2017; Xue et al., 2019). We varied the presentation mode of the poem Les Chats (verse vs. prose form) and measured the eye movements of our readers to test the hypothesis of an interaction between presentation mode and reading behavior. We specifically focussed on rhyme scheme effects on standard eye movement parameters. Our results replicate those from previous English poetry studies in that there is a specific pattern in poetry reading with longer gaze durations and more rereading in the verse than in the prose format. Moreover, presentation mode also matters for making salient the rhyme scheme. This first study generates interesting hypotheses for further research applying quantitative narrative analysis to French poetry and developing the Neurocognitive Poetics Model of literary reading (NCPM; Jacobs, 2015a) into a cross-linguistic model of poetry reading.

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“…This interdisciplinary field offers (neuro-) cognitive hypotheses to relate “the specific effects of poetry” to “the particular regularities that occur in literary texts” in a systematic way (Tsur, 2003). In contrast to other areas of literary studies, (neuro-)cognitive poetics deals with the central question of how readers comprehend and interpret the language of literary texts by conducting experiments “with different types of literary discourse, in different reading contexts with different kinds of readers” (Van Dijk, 1979).…”

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Extracting salient sublexical units from written texts: “Emophon,” a corpus-based approach to phonological iconicity

Aryani¹,

Jacobs²,

Conrad³

2013

Front. Psychol.

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A growing body of literature in psychology, linguistics, and the neurosciences has paid increasing attention to the understanding of the relationships between phonological representations of words and their meaning: a phenomenon also known as phonological iconicity. In this article, we investigate how a text's intended emotional meaning, particularly in literature and poetry, may be reflected at the level of sublexical phonological salience and the use of foregrounded elements. To extract such elements from a given text, we developed a probabilistic model to predict the exceeding of a confidence interval for specific sublexical units concerning their frequency of occurrence within a given text contrasted with a reference linguistic corpus for the German language. Implementing this model in a computational application, we provide a text analysis tool which automatically delivers information about sublexical phonological salience allowing researchers, inter alia, to investigate effects of the sublexical emotional tone of texts based on current findings on phonological iconicity.

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Aspects of Cognitive Poetics

Cited by 35 publications

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Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope

Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope

Following in Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss’ footsteps: A neurocognitive poetics investigation of eye movements during the reading of Baudelaire’s ‘Les Chats’

Extracting salient sublexical units from written texts: “Emophon,” a corpus-based approach to phonological iconicity

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