# Cognitive Phenomenology of Literature  ## Metadata - Author: [[readwise.io]] - Full Title: Cognitive Phenomenology of Literature - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Tags: [[refereeing]] - Summary: Kivy argues that silent reading is a performance because it involves inner speech, similar to how audiences appreciate actors. However, some critics question whether this inner speech can truly be considered a performance since it is private and not shared. The author suggests that cognitive phenomenology, the understanding of sentences while reading, may better explain the experience of reading silently. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/271206120 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > When reading silently, the appreciation of the literary work is thus mediated by the appreciation of one’s performance of it: silent readers appreciate their own inner-speech-based performance of the work, that is, the way in which they make the words sound in their heads while reading (much like the audience appreciates the actors’ performance of a theatrical play). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkzm5n50w1n91rr3eam4d1nh)) - Note: kivey's account > In contrast, reading a fictional letter involves not only comprehending the meaning, but also the awareness that we are “acting the part of a letter reader, as you would be if you were playing on the stage someone reading a letter silently to herself” (Kivy, 2006: 21). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkzmjyg87fwqh88v5jvsremd)) > For example, Abramson and Goldinger’s (1997) behavioral study shows that silent readers take longer to respond to words with long vowel sound, even if their orthographic length is equivalent to that of words with short vowel sounds, thereby showing that silent readers access auditory representations with temporal information. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkzmt4vwkqrjkq2h9bnq85rs)) > Under the second definition, then, inner speech is understood as producing internal representations of language (whether consciously or not). This distinction is also pointed out by Moore and Schwitzgebel (2018) when considering silent reading: they argue that the more general capacity of computing phonological information when reading (e.g., accessing length duration of vowels), should be distinguishing from having the inner experience of hearing a sound without speaking. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkzmx4w4zspjv3gr82fcgtfm)) - Note: typo ## New highlights added February 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM > (i.e., the experience of understanding, thinking, reflecting, believing, etc.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkzs1jmrbapq5xcr6qvc2sf9))