This thesis proposes an account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes in the light of recent developments in pragmatic theory. More specifically it discusses and attempts to develop the relevance theory account of poetic effects. Much recent debate in literary studies has centred on the question as to whether literary communication is best explained in terms...

This paper is a comparative quantitative evaluation of an approach to teaching poetry in the subject domain of English that employs a ‘guided discovery’ pedagogy using computer-based microworlds. It uses a quasi-experimental design in order to measure performance gains in computational thinking and poetic thinking following a microworld-based intervention in English lessons. Preliminary finding...

Poetry-making and Policy-making (*) 12. 1 Prospects for an arranged marriage 12.2 Overtures of the Beast 12.3 Overtures of Beauty 12.4 Voice of the Matchmaker 12.5 Poetic configuration of policy guidelines 12.6 Enhancement of policy through key poetic insights 12.7 Vision of a poetic policy project 12.8' ~;nv,:;ioning the policy-making experience of the future , 12,9 Fdicy disc(;urse through me...

We propose a machine learning method for recognizing modern Arabic poems based on the common poetic features of modern Arabic poetry. The poetic features include: rhyming, repetition, use of diacritics and punctuations, and text alignment. The method can classify text documents as poem or non-poem documents with a very high accuracy of 99.81%.

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...

This article addresses the problem of the ‘inscription’ of religious meaning within the poetic descriptions of the material world and existential experience; it analyses this problem with reference to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The article begins with a brief review of Hopkins’ poetic goals, and then turns to the interrelations between the thematic and rhetorical concerns in his writi...

Poetry is rarely a focus of linguistic investigation. This is far from surprising, as poetic language, especially in modern and contemporary literature, seems to defy the general rules of syntax and semantics. This paper assumes, however, that linguistic theories should ideally be able to account for creative uses of language, down to their most difficult incarnations. It proposes that at the s...

This study examined how emergent features, which are made salient in the interpretation of metaphor, are related to metaphor appreciation. According to an incongruity resolution model of poetic appreciation, the role of emergent features in metaphor appreciation is predicted to facilitate poetic appreciation by constituting a richer interpretation when topic–vehicle similarity is lower. Two exp...