Figure and background: parallels between perception of visual and textual information Cover Image

ФИГУРА И ФОН: ПАРАЛЛЕЛИ МЕЖДУ ВИЗУАЛЬНЫМ ВОСПРИЯТИЕМ И ВОСПРИЯТИЕМ ТЕКСТОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ
Figure and background: parallels between perception of visual and textual information

Author(s): Klavdia Prokopchuk
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: figure and background; spatial organization; visual field; emantic structure of humanistic text

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is based on an assumption that there is a correlation between the perceptual criteria that determine the spatial organization of the visual field into figure and ground (as proposed by the gestalt theory) and those that determine the foreground-background distinction in texts. We will show that the usage of this figure-versus-ground theory can be effective in a research of comprehension of humanistic texts in inter-cultural communication. Many of cultural differences that were already discovered in the compositional and semantic structure of humanistic text — i.e. principals of its progression, paragraph structure, citation — may be a result of different strategies in construction of foreground and background.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 126
  • Page Range: 102-116
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Russian