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- From space to mental space: a cognitive perspective into narrative and the architecture of the human mindPublication . Abrantes, Ana MargaridaSpatial metaphors are pervasive across models and theories about the structure and the meaning-making processes of the human mind: metaphorical and metonymic mappings (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Barcelona 2012), mental spaces (Fauconnier 1994, 1997) or semantic domains (Fauconnier and Sweetser 1996, Brandt 2004) are examples of this spatial ubiquity in cognitive science. In narratology, categories of location and place are often correlated with narrative spaces as expression of a dynamics of unfolding of events, from initial situation to catastrophe to its consequence and result (Brandt 2009). Narrative as such is viewed as a compelling way of worldmaking (Nünning 2010, Goodman 1975), inviting further metaphors in the description of the reading experience, such as ‘being transported’ by means of ‘mentally performing’ narrated actions and experiences (Gerrig 2003).
- Gestalt, perception and literaturePublication . Abrantes, Ana MargaridaIn this paper, we shall consider the emergence and significance of gestalt theory in the research of perception (both pragmatic and aesthetic), and moreover the importance this theory has recently acquired in the study of language, the medium of literary art, and in the cognitive oriented research of literature. We will conclude with the consideration of a particular text, Peter Weiss' Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers, in which the gestalt notions of figure and ground are manipulated to generate ambiguity and to delay aesthetic perception on multiple layers: On the level of the semantic content, the text tells about an inverted or abnormal way of perceiving the world and interacting with it; on the level of formal composition, this inversion persists, conveyed by linguistic strategies that create ambiguity between figure and ground in expression; and on the level of reception, as the reader progressively shifts attention from the content to the form, in the quest for the meaning of the text. It is our claim that this continuity in the experience of this text is not just illustrated by gestalt concepts: it is revealed in their use.
- In Bild und Wort: Formen der kulturellen Resilienz in Zeiten der Krise am Beispiel von PortugalPublication . Abrantes, Ana Margarida
- Linguagem, discurso e cognição: desafios e perspectivasPublication . Cavalcante, Sandra; Abrantes, Ana Margarida; Souza, André Luiz
- Talk this dance: on the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversationPublication . Abrantes, Ana Margarida; Pascual, EstherAs a means of expression, the unequivocally physical experience of dance is typically construed and spoken about in communicative terms, as a 'conversation between body and soul,' a 'dialogue between dancers' or a means to 'tell a story' to an audience. This chapter analyses this metaphor through a case study of Tiago Rodrigues' choreography A Perna Esquerda de Tchaikovski. The choreography is self-referential, a form of meta-theatre: it is a performance about performing that grants an unusual view of pre-show work. As a choreography about the memory of the body, the piece makes use of marking as a strategy for simulated movement, with the body as a carrier of memories (scars, pains, etc.). The collection of pains is the collection of memories that the dancer reconstructs in dialogue as the episodes of her own story, in essence, they represent cause-effect compressions of her career.