Cognitive Grammar Applied to Cinematic Movement
Cognitive Grammar Applied to Cinematic Movement

Summary/Abstract: The present paper argues for the application of a series of notions from the Cognitive Grammar advocated by Ronald W. Langacker to film analysis. Cinematic conceptualizations are constructed in a scaffolding manner. The constructions contain bindings between schematic subcomponents (elaboration site, i.e. e-site) and more fined grained elaborations (instantiations). The e-sites are ad-hoc goal derived categories or abstract summaries of conceptual content that is further elaborated in cinematic discourse unfolding. The schematic element and its instantiation have a conceptual commonality (one is schematic and the other an elaboration of an inherent conceptual content) and exhibit similar connections with external elements, i.e. play analogous roles in processual (head – complement) and non-processual (head – modifier) groupings. Specifically, character movement and camera movement can be described with this conceptual apparatus.

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