THE MEASUREMENT OF METER, ITS COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE FUNCTIONS

被引：32

作者：

VANPEER, W

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POETICS | 1990年 / 19卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1016/0304-422X(90)90023-X

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I [文学];

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05 ;

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The present paper explores the effect of a specific textual device, i.e. metrical structure, on the reception of a text. Two hypotheses were tested, one bearing on the assumed 'aesthetic', the other on the mnemonic effect of metre. To this end, two versions of a poem, one metrical, the other non-metrical, were distributed randomly among readers, after which they were asked to respond to semantic differential scales and to memory tasks. The results show that the hypotheses must be upheld. The metrical structure clearly enhanced aesthetic pleasure experienced in reading the text, while it also heightened readers' ability to recognize the correct phrasings from amongst a group of distractors. The results provide empirical evidence for the theoretical claim that the reading experience is a function of - amongst other things - the text's linguistic structure. © 1990.

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