Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations
This study investigates the relationship between literature and poetry reading frequency and participants’ ratings of metaphors on key features: quality, aptness, familiarity, and comprehensibility. Using a set of Serbian poetic metaphors, we explored two main questions: how reading habits correlate...
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| description | This study investigates the relationship between literature and poetry reading frequency and participants’ ratings of metaphors on key features: quality, aptness, familiarity, and comprehensibility. Using a set of Serbian poetic metaphors, we explored two main questions: how reading habits correlate with metaphor feature ratings, and whether the type of reading material (i.e., literature vs poetry) influences sensitivity to these features. The sample consisted of 140 native Serbian-speaking students from varied academic disciplines. Participants rated metaphors based on reading frequency (literature and poetry) using a 7-point Likert scale. Analysis showed that frequent readers generally gave higher overall metaphor ratings than infrequent readers, with significant differences noted particularly in familiarity and comprehensibility. Specifically, familiarity ratings yielded the most substantial differences between infrequent and frequent readers, which can indicate the influence of reading experience on the perceived recognition and understanding of metaphors. Aptness and quality ratings showed no significant differences, which suggests that familiarity and comprehensibility are more sensitive to variations in reading habits. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7cdb57e939e24ce2a74eef57fb927d042025-08-20T03:45:48ZengDe GruyterOpen Linguistics2300-99692025-06-011115577010.1515/opli-2025-0053Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relationsMitić Aleksandra Janić0Mitić Ivana1Stamenković Dušan2Department of Serbian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Niš, SerbiaDepartment of Serbian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Niš, SerbiaSchool of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Alfred Nobels allé 7, 141 89, Huddinge, SwedenThis study investigates the relationship between literature and poetry reading frequency and participants’ ratings of metaphors on key features: quality, aptness, familiarity, and comprehensibility. Using a set of Serbian poetic metaphors, we explored two main questions: how reading habits correlate with metaphor feature ratings, and whether the type of reading material (i.e., literature vs poetry) influences sensitivity to these features. The sample consisted of 140 native Serbian-speaking students from varied academic disciplines. Participants rated metaphors based on reading frequency (literature and poetry) using a 7-point Likert scale. Analysis showed that frequent readers generally gave higher overall metaphor ratings than infrequent readers, with significant differences noted particularly in familiarity and comprehensibility. Specifically, familiarity ratings yielded the most substantial differences between infrequent and frequent readers, which can indicate the influence of reading experience on the perceived recognition and understanding of metaphors. Aptness and quality ratings showed no significant differences, which suggests that familiarity and comprehensibility are more sensitive to variations in reading habits.https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0053metaphorreadingliteraturepoetrymetaphor features |
| spellingShingle | Mitić Aleksandra Janić Mitić Ivana Stamenković Dušan Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations Open Linguistics metaphor reading literature poetry metaphor features |
| title | Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations |
| title_full | Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations |
| title_fullStr | Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations |
| title_short | Can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation? Exploring key relations |
| title_sort | can reading habits affect metaphor evaluation exploring key relations |
| topic | metaphor reading literature poetry metaphor features |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0053 |
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