Abstract
The paper advances a cognitive model representing a creative mechanism of riddle decoding by its recipient, which serves as a theoretical and methodological ground for the experimental phonetic study of prosodic means that organize the text of a riddle. Within the process of cognitive model formation the author performs a conceptual analysis of the riddle compositional structure, presented as a systemic algorithmic scheme. It is confirmed that a characteristic feature of a folk riddle is its division into two elements: the first one is the description of an object, further differentiated into “topic” and “commentary”, while the second one is the riddle answer, or solution, generated directly in the recipient’s mind as a result of his/her mental activities. The carried out auditory analysis proves that such a limitation of the riddle’s structure is compensated by a set of prosodic means and their specific interaction, which trigger creative and cognitive processes in the recipient’s mind aimed at searching for the riddle solution.
Highlights
The results of our previous studies (Taranenko 2013: 168) confirmed that a characteristic feature of a folk riddle is its clear division into two parts, reproduced by different individuals
The first part is the content of a riddle, which contains a description of the object, while the second one is the riddle answer, or solution, formed directly in the recipient’s mind as a result of his/her mental activities
It was assumed that such a limitation of the riddle’s structure should be compensated by prosodic means’ interaction, which triggers creative and cognitive processes in the recipient’s mind aimed at searching for the riddle solution. Considering these ideas, in the present paper we have undertaken a substantiation of a cognitive model representing a creative mechanism of a riddle decoding, which serves as a theoretical and methodological ground for the experimental phonetic study of the prosodic means that organize the text of a riddle
Summary
The results of our previous studies (Taranenko 2013: 168) confirmed that a characteristic feature of a folk riddle is its clear division into two parts, reproduced by different individuals. It was assumed that such a limitation of the riddle’s structure should be compensated by prosodic means’ interaction, which triggers creative and cognitive processes in the recipient’s mind aimed at searching for the riddle solution. Considering these ideas, in the present paper we have undertaken a substantiation of a cognitive model representing a creative mechanism of a riddle decoding, which serves as a theoretical and methodological ground for the experimental phonetic study of the prosodic means that organize the text of a riddle. On the basis of auditory analysis of English folk riddles, we described the characteristics of their prosodic organization that influence the recipient’s search for the riddle solution as well as substantiated invariant prosodic features typical of the riddle structural elements
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