Found poems

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Found Poems (dt. Poems found ) are in the semiotics everyday language texts, which are explained by new ways of seeing things as poems or supposedly read as poems.

The term in linguistics and semiotics

In linguistics and semiotics, there is a distinction between texts in everyday language texts and in poetic texts. Found poems represent a special phenomenon here because they appear poetic or everyday, depending on the point of view. The change in the perception of everyday texts as found poems is described as transformation. The text is given a new function through "New Seeing" ( Winfried Nöth ). The perception may have changed here due to alienation and deautomatization . According to this theory, which was developed by functionalists Viktor Šklovskij and Jurij N. Tynjanov , everyday texts are perceived as ordinary everyday things. If this habit is broken, it can happen that everyday texts are seen new and suddenly appear "strange". In the semiotic aesthetic according to Jan Mukařovský , a changed perception of everyday texts is explained by a particularly conscious and intensive concentration on the texts. The text comes to the fore for the reader. Jan Mukařovský coined the term foregrounding for this . Here, too, foregrounding is "the opposite of automation, that is, the deautomatization of an action."

Research debate

The term comes from the research debate in semiotics, which deals with the question of whether poeticity or the poetic has a special text structure or whether the poetic is to be understood as a special form of communicative action and thus not the structure of the text about the poetic Text decides, but function. The latter position is represented by the so-called functionalists in linguistics and semiotics and see themselves confirmed by the phenomenon of found poems .

Related terms

In addition to the term found poems in semiotics, the terms found art for "chance art " and found poetry for "chance poetry " exist in cultural studies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Winfried Nöth: Handbuch der Semiotik, pp. 452/453
  2. ↑ See Winfried Nöth: Handbuch der Semiotik, p. 453
  3. ^ Jan Mukařovský: Standard language and poetic language. In Paul L. Gravin, A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure, and Style. Georgetown Univ. Press., Washington, DC 1932, p. 19. Quoted in Nörth, p. 453

source

  • Winfried Nöth: Handbook of Semiotics . 2nd, completely revised and enlarged edition. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2000.