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| Daniel Kelly (AKA Jack) |
 Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:17 am |
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Hi,
I'm researching the 1st chapter of my PhD thesis and I'd be very
appreciative to hear your views and ideas on the following question:
Where do we use spatial and mapping metaphors to describe aspects of the
world and society?
And could you point me towards any philosophical / psychological literature
on this subject?
Examples I've bumped into are:
1) Descriptions of narrative structure & characterisation (the "character
arc", "where have you got to in the story?", depth of the character, etc.)
2) Family trees (especially in incestuous / inbred family structures)
3) Social & professional hierarchy ("The King powered above all his
subjects", "his family life was going down the tube")
4) Graphical representation of music (something similar to Media Player's
visualisations; and dancing)
5) Time (time line)
6) Hypertext "maps"
7) Data visualisation (graphs, 3D representations etc)
8) Hand gestures to accompany speech
Thanks,
Jack |
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| Kali |
| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 5:39 pm |
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In article <bq7orc$r78$1@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk>, posted Fri, 28
Nov 2003 15:17:04 -0000, "Daniel Kelly \(AKA Jack\)"
<d.kellyNOSPAM@NOSPAM.ucl.ac.uk> says...
:Hi,
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:I'm researching the 1st chapter of my PhD thesis and I'd be very
:appreciative to hear your views and ideas on the following question:
:
:Where do we use spatial and mapping metaphors to describe aspects of the
:world and society?
These metaphors are ubiquitous in the English language.
Good is up, bad is down, goals are destinations, and
processes are journeys.
:And could you point me towards any philosophical / psychological literature
 n this subject?
Check PsycInfo. Look up George Lakoff. Dedre Gentner has
done extensive research on analogical mapping. Stephen
Levinson has done a lot of work on spatial aspects of
language. And here are some links:
http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/metaphor.htm
http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/POL/POL.htm
:Examples I've bumped into are:
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:1) Descriptions of narrative structure & characterisation (the "character
:arc", "where have you got to in the story?", depth of the character, etc.)
Check out Art Graesser and Rolf Zwann for a constructionist
view of narrative comprehension, see esp "situation model".
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:2) Family trees (especially in incestuous / inbred family structures)
Don't see how this follows.
:3) Social & professional hierarchy ("The King powered above all his
:subjects", "his family life was going down the tube")
Naomi Quinn and Claudia Strauss, anthropologists.
:4) Graphical representation of music (something similar to Media Player's
:visualisations; and dancing)
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:5) Time (time line)
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:6) Hypertext "maps"
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:7) Data visualisation (graphs, 3D representations etc)
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: Hand gestures to accompany speech
Good article on the web on gesture from an evolutionary
perspective:
http://www.pdc.co.il/corballi.htm
David Armstrong wrote a great book that covers a lot of
spatial territory on gestures.
What's it all about? What field are you in, Jack?
Kali - grad student, cog psych
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