Mental model theory as a model for analysing visual and multimodal discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 303-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
Multimodal Discourse

scholarly journals The importance of being relevant?

Target ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Braun
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Partial Translation

Abstract Inspired by the belief that cognitive and pragmatic models of communication and discourse processing offer great potential for the study of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), this paper will review such models and discuss their contribution to conceptualising the three inter-related sub-processes underlying all forms of AVT: the comprehension of the multimodal discourse by the translator; the translation of selected elements of this discourse; and the comprehension of the newly formed multimodal discourse by the target audience. The focus will be on two models, Relevance Theory, which presents the most comprehensive pragmatic model of communication, and Mental Model Theory, which underlies cognitive models of discourse processing. The two approaches will be used to discuss and question common perceptions of AVT as being ‘constrained’ and ‘partial’ translation.

The Mental Model Theory of Conditionals: A Reply to Guy Politzer

Topoi ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip N. Johnson-Laird ◽  
Ruth M. J. Byrne ◽  
Vittorio Girotto
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Mental Model Theory

Mental models, humorous texts and humour evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri de Jongste
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Model Construction ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Manipulation Process ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper investigates how a mental-model theory of communication can explain differences in humorous texts and how aesthetic criteria to evaluate humour are dependent on the way mental models are exploited. Humour is defined as the deliberate manipulation by speakers of their private mental models of situations in order to create public mental models which contain one or more incongruities. Recipients can re-construct this manipulation process and thereby evaluate its nature and its quality. Humorous texts can be distinguished in terms of ownership of the manipulated mental model, the relationship between the speakers’ private and their public (humorous) mental model, as well as the speed required in the humorous mental model construction. Possible aesthetic criteria are the quality of the mental model manipulation, the pressure under which the humorously manipulated mental models have been constructed and the quality of the presentation of humorous mental models.

Is the self-organizing consciousness framework compatible with human deductive reasoning?

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-331
Author(s):  
Pierre Barrouillet ◽  
Henry Markovits
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
Self Organizing

As stressed by Perruchet & Vinter, the SOC model echoes Johnson-Laird's mental model theory. Indeed, the latter rejects rule-based processing and assumes that reasoning is achieved through the manipulation of conscious representations. However, the mental model theory as well as its modified versions resorts to the abstraction of complex schemas and some form of implicit logic that seems incompatible with the SOC approach.

scholarly journals Echo questions as a means of building coherence in conversational discourse

Lege Artis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-378
Author(s):  
Natalia Strelchenko
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Model Theory ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Conversational Discourse ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
Mental Context ◽  
Echo Questions

Abstract The study focuses on the cognitive-communicative characteristics of echo questions in English conversational discourse. Drawing on van Dijk's sociocognitive (mental model) theory and cognitive discourse analysis, the paper suggests viewing echo questions as a means of building/updating a mental context model of a communicative situation. As discourse comprehension presupposes building its coherent mental model, echo questions resolving misunderstanding are regarded as an instrument for increasing coherence in conversational discourse. Based on the mental model theory, the study offers a typology of misunderstandings corrected by echo questions.

Evaluating Expertise in a Complex Domain–Measures Based on Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (17) ◽  
pp. 1152-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean MacMillan ◽  
Eileen B. Entin ◽  
Daniel Serfaty
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Expert Performance ◽  
The Real ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Mental Model Theory ◽  
Military Command ◽  
Expertise Level

Human factors practitioners are often concerned with defining and evaluating expertise in complex domains where there may be no agreed-upon expertise levels, no single right answers to problems, and where the observation and measurement of real-world expert performance is difficult. This paper reports the results of an experiment in which expertise was assessed in an extremely complex and demanding domain–military command decision making in tactical warfare. The hypotheses of the experiment were: 1) command decisionmaking expertise can be recognized in practice by domain experts; 2) differences in the command decisionmaking expertise of individuals can be identified even under conditions that do not fully replicate the real world; and 3) observers who are not domain experts can recognize the expert behaviors predicted by a mental-model theory about the nature of expertise. In the experiment, the expertise of military officers in developing tactical plans was assessed independently by three “super-expert” judges, and these expertise-level ratings were correlated with independent theory-based measures used by observers who were not domain experts. The results suggest that experts in a domain have a shared underlying concept of expertise in that domain even if they cannot articulate that concept, that this expertise can be elicited and measured in situations that do not completely mimic the real world, and that expertise measures based on a mental-model theory can be used effectively by observers who are not experts in the domain.

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