Aesthetic Attention
Theories, Models, Perspectives


PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, 22 NOVEMBER

9:30
WELCOME

9:45
WELCOME BY MECHTHILD DREYER (VICE PRESIDENT OF MAINZ UNIVERSITY)

10:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Nancy Easterlin (New Orleans)
Novelty and Aesthetic Attention: The Human Wayfinder's Guide to Literary
Value

11:00 Coffee break


11:30
SECTION 1: ATTENDING TO LITERATURE
(chair: Anja Müller Wood)

Winfried Menninghaus (Frankfurt)
Five Preliminary Hypotheses Regarding Rhetorical and Poetic Language Use

Ralf Müller (Fribourg)
'She lisped and he said firmly': Strategies of Directing Attention in
Narrated Speech Acts

Catherine Emmott (Glasgow)
Investigating Attention Empirically: Aesthetic and Psychological
Perspectives

13:30 Lunch break


15:00
SECTION 2: ATTENDING TO IMAGES
(chair: Kerstin Thomas)

Raphael Rosenberg (Vienna)
Eye Movements and the Attention on Paintings: Subjective Impressions and
Objective Measurements

Carl Plantinga (Grand Rapids)
Sympathy and Threat: The Represented Face in Narrative Film

Paul Frosh (Jerusalem)
The Aesthetics of Inattention: Thinking Beyond the Discrete Image

17:00 Coffee break


17:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Ed Tan (Amsterdam)
Attention as the Basis of Aesthetic Experience: A Cross Media
Perspective

19:30 Dinner


SATURDAY, 23 NOVEMBER

10:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Christopher Mole (Vancouver)
Foundations of Aesthetic Attention

11:00 Coffee break


11:30
SECTION 3: ATTENDING TO LANGUAGE
(chair: Julia Kind)

Vyv Evans (Bangor)
Towards a Grammar of Linguistic Attention

Matthias Schlesewsky (Mainz)
Towards a Unified Neurobiological Model of Audition and Language

Andrea Martin (Edinburgh)
Some Consequences of a Limited Focus of Attention and Content
Addressable Memory for Language Processing

13:30 Lunch break


15:00
SECTION 4: ATTENDING TO JOURNALISTIC MULTIMODAL MEDIA
(chair: Pascal Nicklas)

Hans Jürgen Bucher (Trier)
Attention and Selectivity: What Eye Tracking Reveals about the Reception
of Multimodal Media Discourse

Karl N. Renner (Mainz)
Knowledge or Illusions of Knowledge. Remarks on Appealing TV News Pieces

Melanie Magin / Birgit Stark (Mainz)
Attention, Please! Tabloidization Trends in German and Austrian
Newspapers

17:00 Coffee break


17:30
FINAL DISCUSSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

19:00 Dinner


With the generous support of
Research Unit Media Convergence
Johannes Gutenberg-University

medien konvergenz
JGU Mainz

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

FTN Forschungszentrum Translationale Neurowissenschaften Mainz