This article adopts a relevance-theoretic approach to the study of line divisions in non-metrical free verse poetry. The article argues that, when positioned at particular points within a poetic text's constituent structure, line divisions can take on procedural-like qualities, in that they perceptually highlight particular elements of the text's linguistically encoded material, thus steering the inferential interpretation process in particular directions. The article also argues that the procedural-like qualities of line divisions can interact with relevance-driven inference, and with the generic convention for interpreting poetic texts in a non-spontaneous fashion, to produce arrays of cognitive effects, which likely would not have been derived had the text been arranged in a less visuospatially segmented manner. Furthermore, the article suggests that the conceptual material relating to these effects may map back onto and adjust the text's lexically encoded content, affecting how particular elements of this content are narrowed and/or broadened, and thus the nature of the resulting ad hoc concepts.

本文采用关联理论的方法研究非格律自由诗诗歌中的行划分。本文认为，当定位在诗歌文本的构成结构中的特定点时，线划分可以具有类似程序的性质，因为它们在感知上突出文本语言编码材料的特定元素，从而将推理解释过程引导到特定方向. 这篇文章还认为，线划分的类程序性质可以与相关性驱动的推理相互作用，并与以非自发的方式解释诗歌文本的通用约定相互作用。时尚，以产生一系列认知效果，如果文本以较少的视觉空间分割方式排列，这些效果可能不会得到。此外，文章建议与这些效果相关的概念材料可能会映射回并调整文本的词汇编码内容，从而影响该内容的特定元素如何被缩小和/或扩大，从而影响所产生的临时概念的性质。