TY - JOUR

T1 - “It feels like there are hooks inside my chest”:

T2 - The construction of narrative absorption experiences using image schemata.

AU - Bálint, Katalin

AU - Tan, Ed

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Narrative absorption is a spontaneous temporary change in the state of consciousness due to an exceptionally intense awareness of a fictional narrative. This article investigates the experiential level of narrative absorption, namely what it is like to be absorbed in a cinematic or printed narrative. Following a cognitive linguistic approach the article assumes that in order to establish understanding of the experiential level of narrative absorption it is necessary to examine how people express their experience. The article proposes that the concept of image schema is a fruitful way to represent the content of viewers' and readers' consciousness so as to identify relevant mental schemata of absorbed narrative experiences. To generate rich descriptions of narrative absorption an interview study was conducted. The interviews qualitatively employing the image schemas as the system of the thematic analysis were examined for this research. The Centre-Periphery, Container, and the Source-Path-Goal schemas provide deeper insight into the nature and structure of recurring embodied patterns of absorption with fictional narratives.

AB - Narrative absorption is a spontaneous temporary change in the state of consciousness due to an exceptionally intense awareness of a fictional narrative. This article investigates the experiential level of narrative absorption, namely what it is like to be absorbed in a cinematic or printed narrative. Following a cognitive linguistic approach the article assumes that in order to establish understanding of the experiential level of narrative absorption it is necessary to examine how people express their experience. The article proposes that the concept of image schema is a fruitful way to represent the content of viewers' and readers' consciousness so as to identify relevant mental schemata of absorbed narrative experiences. To generate rich descriptions of narrative absorption an interview study was conducted. The interviews qualitatively employing the image schemas as the system of the thematic analysis were examined for this research. The Centre-Periphery, Container, and the Source-Path-Goal schemas provide deeper insight into the nature and structure of recurring embodied patterns of absorption with fictional narratives.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACH

KW - CONTAINER SCHEMA

KW - EMBODIED COGNITION

KW - FICTIONAL NARRATIVES

KW - IMAGE SCHEMA

KW - NARRATIVE ABSORPTION

U2 - 10.3167/proj.2015.090205

DO - 10.3167/proj.2015.090205

M3 - Journal article

VL - 9

SP - 63

EP - 88

JO - Projections (New York)

JF - Projections (New York)

SN - 1934-9688

IS - 2

ER -