Peirce's diagrammatic reasoning and the cinema
Image, diagram, and narrative inThe Shape of Water
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4472728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yunhee Lee (0009-0009-6816-6510, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies , Seoul , South Korea), Paul Cobley (0000-0002-8222-159X, Middlesex University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 236-237 |
| Pages | 29-46 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2019-0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2991475041 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article aims to examine the relationship between image and narrative by means of Peirce's first trichotomy of qualisign-sinsign-legisign or, for the purposes of the current argument, image-diagram-metaphor. It is argued that narrative, as an extended metaphor, can be examined in three modes: in the image; schematically, in the imagination; and allegorically or in a thought experiment, through hypothetic interpretation. The article outlines two kinds of diagrammatic reasoning emphasized by Peirce: corollarial deduction in which the image is 'literally seen' and the reasoning steps are manifest in its conclusion; and theorematic deduction where the conclusion in a diagram is subject to a hypothesis which transforms the image into something new. Demonstrating the breadth of diagrammatic reasoning with reference to the 2018 film,The Shape of Water, the article seeks to explore how allegory and diagram are mutually cooperative, based on three ontological modes: the expressive, the cognitive, and the symbolic. Its primary focus, then, is not so much on the story events of the narrative, as the way that they are visualized and characterized as the fairy story unfolds. It is suggested that the interpreting activity involved in allegory and diagram ties interpretation to metacognition, ultimately (re)recognizing the image inThe Shape of Waterin an attempt to ascertain the meaning of love
Allegory · Art · Cognitive science · Diagram · Diagrammatic reasoning · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Metaphor · Narrative · Semiotics · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |