Introduction. Most of the existing neurophysiological literature on metaphors comprehension focuses on the processing conventional metaphors (Coulson & Van Petten 2002) or generic novel metaphors (Tartter et al. 2002, Lai et al. 2009). Except for a few studies including poetic metaphors in Hebrew (Arzouan et al. 2007, Faust & Mashal 2007), no extensive neurophysiological investigation on the pr...

In many of my writings I have argued that poetic images have no fixed predetermined meanings. In my 1992 book What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?—The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (originally published in 1987) I propounded the view that speech sounds do not have fixed predetermined symbolic values either.1 Poetic images as well as speech sounds are clusters of features, each of which may ...

In Poetic Effects Adrian Pilkington proposes that Sperber and Wilson's (1986; 1995) relevance theory can help fill the explanatory gap between textual patterns and their potential aesthetic effects. Before applying relevance theory to poetic texts, Pilkington first presents his position with regard to literary theory. This position is not unproblematic, however, and therefore requires some disc...

The space of bio-inspired hardware can be partitioned along three axes: phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis. We refer to this as the POE model. Our Embryonics (for embryonic electronics) project is situated along the ontogenetic axis of the POE model and is inspired by the processes of molecular biology and by the embryonic development of living beings. We will describe the architecture of mult...

This article presents a holistic approach to the study of genres in book publishing that includes formal aspects literary texts, marketing strategies and categorisations used by producers, perspectives on how these labels are perceived readers critics, as well temporal spatial understanding evolve. The empirical point departure is recent boom Nordic Noir, exemplified following three Swedish aut...

This white paper presents an initial taxonomy of generic strategies and conventions that have emerged from the past eight years of practice-based research in multimedia pedagogy at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. These genres emerged organically across a wide variety of courses and disciplines at the IML and have subsequently been incorporated into the curricula of the Honors in Multim...

This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

What cognitive processes are invoked in understanding the metaphors in a poem, or in any other work of art? Is there any creativity required from the reader? Indeed, as we will show with an example in this paper, some metaphors need creativity on the part of the reader to be interpreted meaningfully. Acknowledging the existence of such metaphor, however, raises a horde of other questions. How i...