Playing by ear and the tip of the tongue : precategorial information in poetry

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Playing by ear and the tip of the tongue : precategorial information in poetry

Reuven Tsur

(Linguistic approaches to literature / Gerard J. Steen, Willie van Peer, Peter Verdonk, editors, v. 14)

John Benjamins Publishing, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In our everyday life we are flooded by a pandemonium of information which consciousness organizes into more easily manageable phonetic and semantic categories. In poetry reading, however, the total effect of a poem is not only obtained by some of these categories but also by precategorial information, for which there is a growing body of empirical evidence of its psychological reality. In the Tip of the Tongue phenomenon, a great amount of diffuse precategorial information is present but fails to "grow together" into a compact word, generating a feeling of some dense, undifferentiated mass. Poetic language typically exploits such precategorial information for its effects. By way of theoretical considerations and close readings, this book explores the semantic and phonetic strategies by which a text may increase or decrease the impact of such information. It investigates the conditions that boost or inhibit overtone fusion in rhyme and alliteration. By seeking empirical evidence for the claims he makes in different fields such as music, art, literature, linguistics, experiments in the speech laboratory, the author provides ample and sound examples (ambiguity intended) in an almost conversational tone, which makes us really anticipate reading each new chapter.

目次

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 3. Chapter 2. The poetic mode of speech perception revisited: What our ear tells our mind
  • 4. Chapter 3. The tot phenomenon: A psycholinguistic model of poetry
  • 5. Chapter 4. "Oceanic" dedifferentiation and poetic metaphor
  • 6. Chapter 5. Deixis and abstractions: Adventures in space and time
  • 7. Chapter 6. Three case studies - Keats, Spenser, Baudelaire
  • 8. Chapter 7. Linguistic devices and ecstatic poetry: "The Windhover" - tongue-twisters and cognitive processes
  • 9. Chapter 8. Defamiliarization revisited
  • 10. Chapter 9. Aesthetic qualities as structural resemblance: Divergence and perceptual forces in poetry
  • 11. Chapter 10. Metaphor and figure-ground relationship: Comparisons from poetry, music, and the visual arts
  • 12. Chapter 11. Size-sound symbolism revisited
  • 13. Chapter 12. Issues in literary synaesthesia: A brief glance
  • 14. Chapter 13. The place of nonconceptual information in university education
  • 15. Chapter 14. Points and counterpoints
  • 16. References

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