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  The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction

Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Knoop, C. A. (2017). The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction. Poetics, 63, 47-59. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.12.001.

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Menninghaus, Winfried1, Author           
Wagner, Valentin1, Author           
Wassiliwizky, Eugen1, Author           
Jacobsen, Thomas2, Author
Knoop, Christine A.1, Author           
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1Department of Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society, ou_2421695              
2External Organizations, ou_persistent22              

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Free keywords: Poetic/rhetorical language Parallelistic diction Emotion Being moved Beauty
 Abstract: Parallelistic features of poetic and rhetorical language use comprise a great variety of linguistically optional patterns of phonological, prosodic, syntactic, and semantic recurrence. Going beyond studies on cognitive facilitation effects of individual parallelistic features (most notably rhyme, alliteration, and meter), the present study shows that the joint employment of multiple such features in 40 sad and joyful poems intensifies all emotional response dimensions (joy, sadness, being moved, intensity, and positive affect) and all aesthetic appreciation dimensions (beauty, liking, and melodiousness) that we measured. Given that parallelistic diction is also used, to different degrees, in ritual language, commercial ads, political slogans, and everyday conversations, the implications of these findings are potentially far-reaching.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2016-12-062017-01-032017-08-30
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2016.12.001
ISSN: 0304-422X
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Title: Poetics
Source Genre: Journal
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Publ. Info: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 63 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 47 - 59 Identifier: -