Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer
Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
Jan Auracher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Auracher plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy
2021 Sound-meaning relations in Japanese Tanka: Formant dispersion of vowels is associated with dominance and activity Scientific Study of Literature 11:1, pp. 3–34 | Article
This study aimed to test sound-meaning relations in Japanese poetry. To this end, participants assessed the sentiments expressed in a random selection of Tanka (a specific form of Japanese poetry) on six bipolar scales comprising Evaluation (emotional valence), Potency (dominance), and Activity… read more
2016 Showing with words: The influence of language concreteness on suspense Scientific Study of Literature 6:2, pp. 208–242 | Article
In the current study, we explored the hypothesis that the level of language concreteness influences readers’ emotional involvement and, thus, fosters the evocation of suspense. To this end, 141 suspenseful texts with comparable content were assessed altogether by 1226 participants on items… read more
2015 Synaesthetic sound iconicity: Phonosemantic associations between acoustic features of phonemes and emotional behavior Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 93–108 | Article
This paper reports results from an empirical study in synaesthetic sound iconicity, a specific form of phonosemantics defined as implicit and systematic associations of acoustic features of phonemes with non-acoustic phenomena. I argue that acoustic features of phonemes are implicitly associated… read more
2008 Threat and geographical distance: the case of North Korea Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer, Zyngier, Sonia, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher (eds.), pp. 309–315 | Article
North Korea is considered by westerners to be a dangerous and unpredictable country and its leader, Kim Jong II, a mad dictator. After its nuclear test in October 2006, nervousness reached a new critical point. Yet first impressions gathered after this test showed that perceptions of this “rogue… read more