Ästhetische Kommunikation der Moderne

Plumpe, Gerhard

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-97031-2

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“…The prototypical core of the aesthetic reception attitude refers to fictional literary texts; their fictionality signals are the decisive trigger for the aesthetic reception attitude (see Henrich & Iser, 1983;Nickel-Bacon, Groeben, & Schreier, 2000). The complexity and polyinterpretability of these texts can be so high (in particular within the framework of modern aesthetics since the beginning of the 20th century: see Friedrich, 1956;Plumpe, 1993) that an unambiguous and definite comprehension product is not possible. Nevertheless, the process of reception is reflexively experienced and evaluated positively, even if the text itself is not liked, e.g.…”

Section: The Aesthetic-emotional Evaluation: a Neglected Dimension Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The aesthetic paradox in processing conventional and non-conventional metaphors

Christmann

Wimmer

Groeben³

2011

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This study focuses on the relationship between cognitive effort and aestheticemotional evaluation in the processing of conventional and non-conventional metaphors. We postulate that an increased cognitive load -which is normally perceived as stressful -is evaluated positively when processing non-conventional metaphors. We have called this contradictory suspense 'aesthetic paradox' . The aesthetic paradox was tested in two studies that differed in degree of processing demand. In study 1 (low processing demand) participants (N = 40) read (non-)conventional metaphors, judged the adequacy of two metaphor paraphrases and assessed their own interpretation process. In study 2 (high processing demand) the same procedure was applied with the exception that participants (N = 40) evaluated the appropriateness of one metaphor paraphrase. The results of both experiments confirm that non-conventional metaphors require longer reading and longer processing times than conventional metaphors, and they confirm the postulated paradoxical effect: the increase of cognitive effort in processing non-conventional metaphors is evaluated positively, provided that a satisfactory interpretation is found.

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Section: The Aesthetic-emotional Evaluation: a Neglected Dimension Anmentioning

confidence: 99%