Cohn Neil
Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego.
Cogn Sci. 2014 Sep-Oct;38(7):1317-59. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12116. Epub 2014 Mar 20.
Cohn's (2013) theory of "Visual Narrative Grammar" argues that sequential images take on categorical roles in a narrative structure, which organizes them into hierarchic constituents analogous to the organization of syntactic categories in sentences. This theory proposes that narrative categories, like syntactic categories, can be identified through diagnostic tests that reveal tendencies for their distribution throughout a sequence. This paper describes four experiments testing these diagnostics to provide support for the validity of these narrative categories. In Experiment 1, participants reconstructed unordered panels of a comic strip into an order that makes sense. Experiment 2 measured viewing times to panels in sequences where the order of panels was reversed. In Experiment 3, participants again reconstructed strips but also deleted a panel from the sequence. Finally, in Experiment 4 participants identified where a panel had been deleted from a comic strip and rated that strip's coherence. Overall, categories had consistent distributional tendencies within experiments and complementary tendencies across experiments. These results point toward an interaction between categorical roles and a global narrative structure.
科恩（2013）的“视觉叙事语法”理论认为，连续的图像在叙事结构中承担着分类角色，这种叙事结构将它们组织成类似于句子中句法类别组织的层次成分。该理论提出，叙事类别与句法类别一样，可以通过诊断测试来识别，这些测试揭示了它们在整个序列中的分布趋势。本文描述了四项实验来测试这些诊断方法，以支持这些叙事类别的有效性。在实验1中，参与者将一组无序的连环漫画面板重新排列成有意义的顺序。实验2测量了在面板顺序颠倒的序列中观看面板的时间。在实验3中，参与者再次重新排列连环漫画，但也从序列中删除了一个面板。最后，在实验4中，参与者识别出连环漫画中哪个面板被删除，并对该连环漫画的连贯性进行评分。总体而言，类别在实验中具有一致的分布趋势，在不同实验之间具有互补趋势。这些结果表明分类角色与整体叙事结构之间存在相互作用。
