The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language

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Autor(a) principal: Tenuta, Adriana Maria
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Lepesqueur, Marcus, Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Revista Scripta
Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/P.2358-3428.2014v18n34p163
Resumo: In narrative texts, some events compose the core story line and, due to their cognitive status of focus and salience, are grammatically and discursively marked as figure. Events that do not share this status are marked as narrative ground and provide information that support those central story. elements (HOPPER, 1979; TENUTA, 2006). This process of figuration in narratives reflects the cognitive principle of human perception in terms of figure and ground, proposed by the Gestalt Psychology. (KOFFKA, 1975; WERTHEIMER, 1938). This article aims at reporting results of a study that investigated the process of figuration in oral narratives produced by 13 subjects. It was tested the hypothesis of a relation between the occurrence of figure or ground narrative units and tasks with distinct cognitive demands of attention and memory. A logistic regression model showed patterns of narrative structuring connected to specific task types. The results suggest a correlation between linguistic representation of information from memory (BADDELEY, 2007’s memory model) and the amount of narrative ground structures. From Bruner (2002) and Chafe’s (1990) perspectives, it is understood that narratives produced from memory content tend to have more ground units, with greater manipulation of cognitive models, not reflecting an objective representation of reality. 
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
title The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
spellingShingle The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
Tenuta, Adriana Maria
Attention
Memory
Cognition
Narrative
Figure and ground.
title_short The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
title_full The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
title_fullStr The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
title_full_unstemmed The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
title_sort The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
author Tenuta, Adriana Maria
author_facet Tenuta, Adriana Maria
Lepesqueur, Marcus
Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha
author_role author
author2 Lepesqueur, Marcus
Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Tenuta, Adriana Maria
Lepesqueur, Marcus
Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Attention
Memory
Cognition
Narrative
Figure and ground.
topic Attention
Memory
Cognition
Narrative
Figure and ground.
description In narrative texts, some events compose the core story line and, due to their cognitive status of focus and salience, are grammatically and discursively marked as figure. Events that do not share this status are marked as narrative ground and provide information that support those central story. elements (HOPPER, 1979; TENUTA, 2006). This process of figuration in narratives reflects the cognitive principle of human perception in terms of figure and ground, proposed by the Gestalt Psychology. (KOFFKA, 1975; WERTHEIMER, 1938). This article aims at reporting results of a study that investigated the process of figuration in oral narratives produced by 13 subjects. It was tested the hypothesis of a relation between the occurrence of figure or ground narrative units and tasks with distinct cognitive demands of attention and memory. A logistic regression model showed patterns of narrative structuring connected to specific task types. The results suggest a correlation between linguistic representation of information from memory (BADDELEY, 2007’s memory model) and the amount of narrative ground structures. From Bruner (2002) and Chafe’s (1990) perspectives, it is understood that narratives produced from memory content tend to have more ground units, with greater manipulation of cognitive models, not reflecting an objective representation of reality. 
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