Discourse Analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23348564
AutoresIver B Neumann (0000-0002-1199-2813, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Páginas61-77
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoQualitative Methods in International Relations (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230584129_5
OpenAlexW4252284778
ISBN9780230584129
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas61

As a 22-year-old, I held a stray job fetching bundles of fur from minks, seals, polar foxes, blue foxes, and red foxes to show the buyers at Oslo Fur Auctions. The work altered the way I saw the world in other realms. Most striking was how one of my main interests at the time, looking at women, acquired a new dimension. Where I had previously focused on shape and movement, attire now became an important factor. My new interest in fur coats changed the way I sifted what I saw. Psychological experiments confirm my personal experience. For instance, children shown a cup with the handle turned away none the less drew a cup with a handle, because cups, by definition, are supposed to have handles. That is, the children drew the model, not simply what they ‘saw’ as a result of light waves hitting their optical nerves. People sort and combine sensory impressions of the world through categories (or models or principles). Language, as a social system with its own relational logic, produces reality for humans by mediating these sense data. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Aesthetics · Art · Dimension (graph theory) · Media studies · Sociology · sort · Visual arts · Communication · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology