Readers' responses to sub-genre and rhyme scheme in poetry
Readers' responses to sub-genre and rhyme scheme in poetry
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DOI：
10.1016/j.poetic.2006.05.001
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Fischer, Martin H.
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作者：
Carminati, Maria Nella;Stabler, Jane;Fischer, Martin H.
本研究采用一种新的跨学科方法，运用心理语言学的经验方法，对诗歌阅读的过程进行了研究。以往的研究表明，阅读的过程是体裁特异性的，即读者做出体裁决定并相应地调整他们的阅读策略。对于诗歌阅读，研究结果表明，表面的文本特征，如押韵和布局的重量很大的分类文本作为诗歌。我们的研究扩展了这一研究，通过检查细粒度的区别，即阅读诗歌中的子体裁。在一个自定进度的阅读任务中，我们测试了读者对叙事诗和抒情诗这两个亚体裁的反应，分别以拜伦的诗歌《唐璜》和托马斯格雷的《写在乡村教堂墓地的挽歌》为例。我们有两个研究问题。第一个更普遍的问题是，次类属的区别是否确实调节读者的在线行为。第二个问题涉及押韵和押韵方案在区分次体裁方面可能发挥的作用，因为这些特征已被证明是文本诗意的高度可靠指标。我们报告的证据表明，在线读者的行为显着调制诗歌子体裁之间的差异。然而，押韵方案并没有出现在调制这些differentiation.We的理论，诗歌处理和未来的跨学科研究讨论这些发现的影响有特殊的作用。(c)2006 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Using a new interdisciplinary approach funded by the AHRB Research Innovations Grant Scheme we studied the process of poetry reading using the empirical methods drawn from psycholinguistics. Previous research has shown that the reading process is genre-specific, i.e. readers make a genre decision and adapt their reading strategies accordingly. For poetry reading, findings suggest that surface textual features such as rhyme and layout weigh heavily in the categorisation of a text as poetry. Our study extends this research by examining finer-grained distinctions, i.e. the reading of sub-genres within poetry. In a self-paced reading task, we tested readerly responses to the two sub-genres of narrative and lyric poetry, exemplified, respectively, by Byron's poem Don Juan and by Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. We had two research questions. The first, more general, question was whether sub-generic distinctions do indeed modulate readers' behaviour on-line. The second question concerned the role that rhyme and rhyme scheme may have in distinguishing between sub-genres, given the fact that such features have been shown to be highly reliable indicators of the poeticity of a text. We report evidence that on-line readers' behaviour is significantly modulated by differences between poetic sub-genres. However, rhyme scheme does not appear to have a special role in modulating these differences.We discuss the implications of these findings for a theory of poetry processing and for future interdisciplinary research. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.