Visual pragmatic effects of distance representation in bilingual museum catalogue entries of Chinese landscape paintings  

Oleh:

Jiang, Chengzhi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 12 (2012), page 1639-1660.
Topik: Visual pragmatic effects; Distance representation; Verbal Distance Cues; A cognitive-functional investigation model; Information presentation; Information focalisation
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In view of the fact that the purely cognitive semantic approach adopted in previous studies on the representation of distance is not adequate, the present paper argues, from a perspective of visual perception theory, that the verbalisation of language-independent distance-related information (e.g. visual Distance Cues) also contributes to distance representation. Then, a cognitive-functional model is proposed to explore the visual pragmatic effects of the distance representation in bilingual museum catalogue entries of Chinese landscape paintings, through investigating the presentation and focalisation of distance expressions. Unlike previous research, the expressions under investigation cover both the spatial expressions that can induce a sense of distance and the verbalised non-linguistic Distance Cues. Based upon the results, the visual pragmatic effects of distance representation are analysed with the focus on how verbal methods of representing distance are applied to facilitate the viewer's appreciation of ‘Three Distances’ (i.e. high distance, level distance or deep distance) emphasised in Chinese landscape paintings.

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