The cognitive import of the narrative schema

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ID10739357
AuthorsPeer F Bundgaard (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume2007
Issue165
Publication date2007-01-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem.2007.042
OpenAlexW2030037859
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

This paper aims to establish the origin of the narrative schema in the perception of intentional movements. The distinction between mechanical and intentional movements is vital for human beings, and the narrative schema, which is underpinned by this distinction, is therefore a basic cognitive principle of intelligibility. This is the reason why the narrative schema is by no means confined to the domain of the literary work of art. It is rather a major principle for the combination of partial significations in many other domains. The paper explores the role traditionally assigned to the narrative schema within continental semiotics and, through an interpretation of Heider and Simmel's study on apparent behavior, it establishes the cognitive import of the narrative schema and its origin in visual perception; finally, it gives examples of the meaning organizing import of the narrative schema

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Narrative · Perception · Schema (genetic algorithms) · Semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Semiotics and Representation Studies

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