Arash Aryani
List of John Benjamins publications for which Arash Aryani plays a role.
Articles
2019 On the crucial role of “Arousal” and “Saliency” in affective iconicity: Comment on “Methodological Issues in the Study of Phonetic Symbolism” by Tsur and Gafni Scientific Study of Literature 9:2, pp. 240–249 | Article
Tsur and Gafni (T&G) claim that individual sounds can suggest “elementary percepts,” which, depending on the context, can evoke “specific emotions.” However, their proposal suffers from a lack of a theoretical framework and embedding of the theory in the broader scholarly literature. In terms of… read more
2016 Mood-empathic and aesthetic responses in poetry reception: A model-guided, multilevel, multimethod approach Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy, Sopčák, Paul, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann (eds.), pp. 87–130 | Article
In the present study we investigate factors shaping poetry reception at multiple levels of analysis. We use both qualitative and quantitative means for describing structural aspects of poems, scales for assessing subjective dimensions, as well as behavioral and peripheral-physiological measures.… read more