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Perceiving Causality in Character Perception: A Metaphorical Study of Causation in Film
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Abstract
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| This 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 in cinematic terms. It is through the forced movements of film making (e.g., framing, editing and camera movement), that, we will argue, the viewer is encouraged to see a causal relationship between (1) the object perceived and the character's visual experience and (2) the character's visual experience and the change of mental state in the perceiving character. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Metaphor and symbol. - Philadelphia, Pa, 1997, currens
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Publication
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Philadelphia, Pa
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2016
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1092-6488
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1532-7868
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DOI
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10.1080/10926488.2016.1150762
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31
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(2016)
, p. 91-107
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000374996600003
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