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Perceiving Causality in Character Perception: A Metaphorical Study of Causation in Film
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Coëgnarts, Maarten Kravanja, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | ABSTRACTThis article aims to show how the metaphorical and metonymical portrayal of character perception in film can give rise to two distinct but interrelated percepts of causality in the viewer, namely (1) the percept that the viewer sees that an object perceived by a character causes the character's perception of that object and (2) the percept that the viewer sees that character perception in turn causes a change of state in the perceiving character's mind (e.g., knowing, remembering). We start our discussion with a brief epistemological overview. Thereby two questions are central: (1) How do people conceptualize perception and causality? and (2) When do people perceive causality in perception? Answers will be given, respectively, by considering insights from cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology. In the next section, then, we bring the theoretical discussion to the foreground of Film Studies by showing how the conceptual solutions, as suggested in the prior part, can manifest themselves i. |
| Starting Page | 91 |
| Ending Page | 107 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/10926488.2016.1150762 |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.kravanja.eu/pages/CK-MS-2016.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2016.1150762 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
