Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

Vries, Clarissa de; Reijnierse, W. Gudrun; Willems, Roel M.

doi:10.1075/ssol.18008.vri

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“…She suggests that understanding the processes of metaphorical transference makes for better appreciation of why metaphors can provoke such a varied range of negative and positive responses. De Vries et al (2018) are also concerned with the way readers react to metaphors. They utilise eye-tracking techniques to assess to what extent readers are ‘sensitive’ to the presence of metaphors and, if so, how this affects their experience of the literary narrative.…”

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The year’s work in stylistics 2018

Statham¹,

Montoro

2019

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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The year’s work in stylistics 2018

Statham¹,

Montoro

2019

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…For instance, de Vries and colleagues showed that participants that had shortest eye gaze durations when reading metaphors in a literary text, reported to be the most absorbed in the narrative. Moreover, these participants liked the story more than participants who did spend more time on the metaphors [49]. Jacobs in his model of poetic reading associates foregrounding with deepened processing, as reflected in slower reading [29,30].…”

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Is less readable liked better? The case of font readability in poetry appreciation

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Previous research shows conflicting findings for the effect of font readability on comprehension and memory for language. It has been found that—perhaps counterintuitively–a hard to read font can be beneficial for language comprehension, especially for difficult language. Here we test how font readability influences the subjective experience of poetry reading. In three experiments we tested the influence of poem difficulty and font readability on the subjective experience of poems. We specifically predicted that font readability would have opposite effects on the subjective experience of easy versus difficult poems. Participants read poems which could be more or less difficult in terms of conceptual or structural aspects, and which were presented in a font that was either easy or more difficult to read. Participants read existing poems and subsequently rated their subjective experience (measured through four dependent variables: overall liking, perceived flow of the poem, perceived topic clarity, and perceived structure). In line with previous literature we observed a Poem Difficulty x Font Readability interaction effect for subjective measures of poetry reading. We found that participants rated easy poems as nicer when presented in an easy to read font, as compared to when presented in a hard to read font. Despite the presence of the interaction effect, we did not observe the predicted opposite effect for more difficult poems. We conclude that font readability can influence reading of easy and more difficult poems differentially, with strongest effects for easy poems.

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Is less readable liked better? The case of font readability in poetry appreciation

Gao¹,

Dera²,

Nijhof³

et al. 2019

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Previous research shows conflicting findings for the effect of font readability on comprehension and memory for language. It has been found that - perhaps counterintuitively – a hard to read font can be beneficial for language comprehension, especially for more difficult language. Here we test how font readability influences the subjective experience of poetry reading. In three experiments we tested the influence of poem difficulty and font readability on the subjective experience of poems. We specifically predicted that font readability would have opposite effects on the subjective experience of easy versus difficult poems. Participants read poems which could be more or less difficult in terms of conceptual or structural aspects, and which were presented in a font that was either easy or more difficult to read. Participants read existing poems and subsequently rated their subjective experience (overall liking, perceived flow of the poem, perceived topic clarity, and perceived structure). In line with previous literature we observed a Poem Difficulty x Font Readability interaction effect for subjective measures of poetry reading. We found that participants rated easy poems as less nice when they were presented in a hard to read font, as compared to when presented in an easy to read font. Despite the presence of the interaction effect, we did not observe the predicted opposite effect for more difficult poems. We conclude that font readability can influence reading of easy and more difficult poems differentially, with strongest effects for easy poems.

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Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

Cited by 36 publications

References 57 publications

The year’s work in stylistics 2018

The year’s work in stylistics 2018

Is less readable liked better? The case of font readability in poetry appreciation

Is less readable liked better? The case of font readability in poetry appreciation

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