The erotetic and the aesthetic

How linguistic features of literary texts determine literary suspense

Interdiciplinary Scientific Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Science Foundation (DFG).

Project Numbers: I 4858-G (FWF) and 441917136 (DFG)

NEWS:

June 2024: The workshop on "Linguistics of Narratives" will take place in Graz with contributions by Elin McCready Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin Universität in Tokio), Edgar Onea (University of Graz) and Tilmann Köppe (University of Göttingen).
January 2024: We are now also working with spoken stimuli in order to measure the suspensefulness of literary narratives.
- 06.- 08.02.2024: “Linguistic features of erotetic structures” in Graz
- 09.- 10.10.2023: “Interdisciplinary and Experimental Approaches to Suspense and Related Phenomena” in Graz
- 08.07.2022: “Literary Suspense” in Göttingen
Since 2022, we have organized three workshops on erotetic structure and suspense in Göttingen and Graz.