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Bilingual representation of distance in visual-verbal sign systems: A case study of Guo Xi’s Early Spring

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Published/Copyright: April 25, 2018
Semiotica
From the journal Semiotica Volume 2018 Issue 222

Abstract

The purely cognitive semantic approach to verbal distance representation has recently been enriched from the perspective of visual perception theory. Focusing on visual pragmatic effects, the present paper will use distance cues as a set of analytical tools and adopt the cognitive-functional model proposed elsewhere to further explore the issue of visual-verbal coherence through Guo Xi’s Early Spring and the bilingual museum catalogue entries attached to it, in physical exhibitions or virtual museums, with a particular view to explaining how a linguistics- or stylistics-based analysis endorses the interpretation of a specific artwork on discursive and cultural levels.

Keywords: visual-verbal coherence; visual pragmatic effects; distance representation; verbal distance cues; Early Spring

Funding statement: This work was supported by Wuhan University, Funder Id: 10.13039/501100007046, Grant Number: 410500056, Project Title: Bilingual and Visual Representation of the Aesthetic of Chinese Landscape Painting. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Centural University.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0126
Keywords for this article
visual-verbal coherence; visual pragmatic effects; distance representation; verbal distance cues; Early Spring

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  9. Differentiated non-differentiation: A diagrammatical approach to the trialectics of difference – from mono-dialectics to mono-trialectics
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