Stefan Blohm
Research Interests
- poetic license (morphosyntactic aspects)
- aesthetic effects of grammatical deviation in poetic texts
- genre-specific language processing
- the psychology of poetic rhyme
Vita
Academic Education
| Since 2013 | PhD candidate at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 06/2013 | M.A. General Linguistics/British Studies, JGU Mainz, Germany |
Professional Experience | |
| since 11/2017 | Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2013-10/2017 | Scholarship at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2011-2013 | Student Research Assistant in the Research Group Neurocognition of Language Universals, Department of English and Linguistics (General Linguistics), JGU Mainz, Germany (Matthias Schlesewsky's lab) |
| 2011 & 2012 | Student Teaching Assistant (to PD Dr Andrej Malchukov); Department of English and Linguistics (Language Typology), JGU Mainz, Germany |
| 2010-2012 & 2008-2009 | Student Research Assistant; IDeA Research Center, JWG Frankfurt am Main, Germany, MILA project (The role of migration background and language impairment in children’s language achievement; Prof. Dr. Petra Schulz) |
Publications
Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)
Blohm, S., Wagner, V., Schlesewsky, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2018). Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect. Poetics, 69, 41–56. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2018.04.005
Blohm, S., Menninghaus, W., & Schlesewsky, M. (2017). Sentence-level effects of literary genre: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1887. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01887
Projects
- Poetic Licenses
This project investigates the processing effects of linguistic deviations in poetry and, specifically, their contribution to aesthetic evaluation. Formal and semantic/conceptual detours from normal language use seem to typify poetry to such an extent ...