The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic
theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature …

A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory,
formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro) cognitive poetics has …

A neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading is presented in the light of experimental
data and ideas from neuroscience, rhetoric, poetics, and aesthetics which should facilitate a …

In this state-of-the-art review, I start with an illustrative example of behavioral data collected
during the reading of a love poem reflecting one of many aspects that form the object of the …

Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

We investigate the relation between general affective meaning and the use of particular
phonological segments in poems, presenting a novel quantitative measure to assess the …

Reading is not only “cold” information processing, but involves affective and aesthetic
processes that go far beyond what current models of word recognition, sentence processing …

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million
words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and …

In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and
(Neuro-) Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of …

In this article we investigate structural differences between “literary” metaphors created by
renowned poets and “nonliterary” ones imagined by non-professional authors from Katz et …