?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Picture+Poems%3A+Some+Cognitive+and+Aesthetic+Principles&rft.creator=Tsur%2C+Reuven&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=This+paper+explores+some+cognitive+and+aesthetic+principles+concerning+picture+poems.+It+conceives+of+language+as+of+a+hierarchy+of+signs%3A+the+graphemic+string+signifies+a+phonological+string+which+signifies+units+of+meaning+which+signify+referents+in+extralinguistic+reality.+Our+linguistic+competence+urges+us+to+reach+the+final+referents+as+fast+as+possible.+Poetic+language+draws+attention+to+itself%2C+that+is%2C+to+the+hierarchy+of+signifiers.+In+manneristic+styles+there+is+a+greater+awareness+of+the+separateness+of+signifiers+than+in+non-manneristic+styles%3B+hence+their+witty+or+disorienting+effect.+While+rhyme%2C+metre%2C+alliteration+impose+additional+patterning+upon+the+phonological+signifiers%2C+picture+poems%2C+acrostich%2C+and+some+other+manneristic+devices+impose+additional+patterning+upon+the+graphemic+signifiers.+When+alliterations+are+turned+into+puns%2C+they+become+manneristic+patterning+of+the+phonological+signifier.+It+is+argued%2C+by+analogy+with+synaesthesia%2C+that+stable+characteristic+visual+shapes+obstruct+smooth+perceptual+fusion%3B+and+based+on+speech+perception%2C+that+speech+sounds+are+special+in+our+cognitive+economy%2C+and+visual+patterning+cannot+achieve+the+naturalness+of+their+patterning.+That+is+why+visual+patterning+is+not+admitted+in+non-manneristic+styles.+Cognitive+poetics+suggests+that+in+the+response+to+poetry%2C+adaptive+devices+are+turned+to+an+aesthetic+end.+In+a+universe+in+which+%22the+centre+cannot+hold%22%2C+readers+of+poetry+find+pleasure+not+so+much+in+the+emotional+disorientation+caused+by+mannerist+devices%2C+but+rather+in+the+reassertion+that+their+adaptive+devices%2C+when+disrupted%2C+function+properly.+This+is+one+reason+for+mannerist+styles+to+recur+in+cultural+and+social+periods+in+which+more+than+one+scale+of+values+prevail.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F734%2F1%2FPicture_Poems.RTF2.html&rft.identifier=++Tsur%2C+Reuven++(1997)+Picture+Poems%3A+Some+Cognitive+and+Aesthetic+Principles.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F734%2F