The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language
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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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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and languageAttentionMemoryCognitionNarrativeFigure and ground.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. PUC Minas2014-07-18info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/P.2358-3428.2014v18n34p16310.5752/P.2358-3428.2014v18n34p163Scripta; Vol 18 No 34 (2014): Scripta 34; 163-178Scripta; v. 18 n. 34 (2014): Scripta 34; 163-1782358-34281516-4039reponame:Revista Scriptainstname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)instacron:PUC_MINSporhttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/P.2358-3428.2014v18n34p163/pdfTenuta, Adriana MariaLepesqueur, MarcusLima, Maria Luiza Cunhainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2019-11-28T17:38:41Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8783Revistahttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/userhttp://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/oai||cespuc@pucminas.br2358-34281516-4039opendoar:2019-11-28T17:38:41Revista Scripta - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)false |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language Tenuta, Adriana Maria Attention Memory Cognition Narrative Figure and ground. |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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The structuring of narrative texts into figure and ground: attention, memory and language |
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Tenuta, Adriana Maria |
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Tenuta, Adriana Maria Lepesqueur, Marcus Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha |
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Lepesqueur, Marcus Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha |
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Tenuta, Adriana Maria Lepesqueur, Marcus Lima, Maria Luiza Cunha |
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Attention Memory Cognition Narrative Figure and ground. |
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Attention Memory Cognition Narrative Figure and ground. |
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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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