SILENT MOVIES, COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION

SILENT MOVIES, COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION: RELATIONSHIP OF BODILY COMMUNICATION WITH COGNITIVE AND PERSONALITY VARIABLES Dr. Ulas Basar Gezgin, PhD CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………….1 1.1. Questions……………………………………………………………..............4 1.2. Significance of the Study……………………………………………………..5 1.3. Purpose of the Study………………………………………………….…........8 1.4. Limitations of the Study………………………………………………............8 2. LITERATURE REVIEW……..…………………………………………......10 2.1. Personality and Cognition……………………………………..…………….10 2.2. Metaphors, Analogies and Metaphorical Representations..……....................16 2.2.1. Analogical Reasoning………………………………………………….17 2.2.2. Metonymies…………………………………………………………….20 2.2.3. Models of Analogy……………………………………………………..27 2.3. The Embodied Cognition View……………………………………………..31 2.4. Personality Variables………………………………………………………..37 2.4.1. Introversion-Extraversion...…………………………………………….37 2.4.2. State-Trait Anxiety……………………………………………………...41 2.4.3. Self-Esteem....................................................…………………………...42 2.5. Bodily Representations……………………………………………………...43 2.6. Mind-reading and Pragmatics……………………………………………….47 2.7. Summary of the Literature Review………………………………………….55 2.8. Hypotheses and Purposes……………………………………………............58 3. METHOD………..……………………………………………………………61 3.1. Participants..……............................................................................................61 3.2. Instruments..........…………………………………………………................61 3.3. Procedure………………………………………………….............................62 3.4. Analyses……….....................................…………………………………….65 4. RESULTS..………………………………………………................................67 4.1. Descriptive Analyses….………………………………………......................67 4.1.1. The Stability of Bodily Communication Expectancy Ratings.................68 4.1.2. The Factor Structure of Bodily Communication Performance………....69 4.1.3. The Frequency of the Categories for Each Word.....................................70 4.1.4. Interrater Reliability Analysis….……………………………………….73 4.1.5. Case Studies..…………………………………………………………...73 4.1.5.1. Woman…………………………………………………………..73 4.1.5.2. Tree…………...………………………………………………….74 4.1.5.3. Pyramid………………………………………………………….75 4.1.5.4. Statue………………………………………..…………………...75 4.1.5.5. Festival…………………………………………………………..75 4.1.5.6. Worship………………………………………………………….76 4.1.5.7. Patience………………………………………………………….77 4.1.5.8. Adult…………………………………………………………….77 4.1.5.9. Health……………………………………………………………78 4.1.5.10. Life……………………………………………………………..78 4.1.5.11. Lie………………………………...............................................78 4.1.6. The Description of Unsuccessful Representations Classified by Strategies......................................................................................................79 4.1.6.1. Referent’s Typical Actions……………………………………...80 4.1.6.2. Shape…………………………………………………………….81 4.1.6.3. Effect…………………………………………………………….85 4.1.6.4. Culture…………………………………………………………...86 4.1.6.5. Negation…………………………………………………………91 4.1.7. The General Analysis of Unsuccessful Representations……………….95 4.1.8. Third Eye Analyses…………………………………………………….99 4.2. Structural Equation Modeling Results.………………….............................102 4.2.1. The Hypothesized Model…...................................................................102 4.2.2. Model Estimation…………………………………...............................104 4.2.3. Direct Effects………………………………………………….............105 5. DISCUSSION……………………………………………………………….107 5.1. Evaluation of the Hypotheses………………………………………………107 5.1.1. Hypothesis 1: Self-Esteem and Bodily Communication Expectancy….107 5.1.2. Hypothesis 2: Extraversion and Bodily Representation Performance…108 5.1.3. Hypothesis 3: Analogical Reasoning and Bodily Representation Performance…………………………………………………………………..108 5.1.4. Hypothesis 4: Bodily Communication Expectancy and Bodily Representation………………………………………………………………...111 5.1.5. Hypothesis 5: Self-Esteem and Trait Anxiety………………………….113 5.1.6. Hypothesis 6: Extraversion and Self-Esteem…………………………..113 5.1.7. Hypothesis 7: Extraversion and Trait Anxiety……...…………….……114 5.1.8. Hypothesis 8: Self-Esteem and Bodily Representation Performance…………………………………………………………………..115 5.1.9. Trait Anxiety and Bodily Representation Performance.……………….115 5.2. Strategies, Schemata, and Scripts…………………………………………..116 5.2.1. Referent’s Typical Actions……………….……………………………119 5.2.2. Shape…………………………………………………………………...125 5.2.3. Effect…………………………………………………………………...132 5.2.4. Representer’s Typical Actions………………….……………………...137 5.2.5. Culture…………………………………………………….....................141 5.2.6. Negation………………………………………………………………..147 5.2.7. General Discussion for a Cognitive Framework………….....................153 5.2.8. Towards a Model of Bodily Communication………...………………...157 6. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………...175 REFERENCES………………………………………………………………...183 APPENDIX: DEFINITIONS FROM TURKISH WORDNET……………..209 VITA……………………………………………………………………………211 LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1. A taxonomy of social intelligence……………………………….…...12 Table 2.2. Types of Metonymy and Examples…………………………………..21 Table 3.1. Words used in the study and corresponding strategies……………….63 Table 4.1. Test-retest correlations of the words…………………………………68 Table 4.2. Total variance explained……………………………………………...70 Table 4.3. Rotated component matrix……………………………………………70 Table 4.4. The words, expected strategies, and their frequencies and percentages……………………………………………………………………….71 Table 4.5. The words and the success rates……………………………………...79 Table 4.6. The unsuccessful ways of representing dragon, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of dragon representations…………...81 Table 4.7. The unsuccessful ways of representing woman, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of woman representations…………..82 Table 4.8. The unsuccessful ways of representing tree, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of tree representations………………83 Table 4.9. The unsuccessful ways of representing pyramid, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of pyramid representations................84 Table 4.10. The unsuccessful ways of representing statue, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of statue representations…………....84 Table 4.11. The unsuccessful ways of representing mud, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of mud representations……………...86 Table 4.12. The unsuccessful ways of representing lightness, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of lightness representations………...87 Table 4.13. The unsuccessful ways of representing festival, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of festival representations…………..88 Table 4.14. The unsuccessful ways of representing worship, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of worship representations………….88 Table 4.15. lists the unsuccessful ways of representing funeral, their frequencies and percentages…………………………………………………………………..89 Table 4.16. The Unsuccessful Ways of Representing Wise, Their Frequencies and Percentages among the Unsuccessful Cases of Wise Representations…………..90 Table 4.17. The unsuccessful ways of representing patience, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of patience representations…………92 Table 4.18. The unsuccessful ways of representing adult, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of adult representations……………..93 Table 4.19. The unsuccessful ways of representing health, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of health representations……………94 Table 4.20. The unsuccessful ways of representing life, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of life representations………………94 Table 4.21. The unsuccessful ways of representing lie, their frequencies and percentages among the unsuccessful cases of lie representations………………100 Table 4.22. The two interrater’s success in identification of strategy and in guessing the word……………………………………………………………….101 Table 4.23. Comparison of models……………………………………………..104 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1. The relationship between concept combination, metaphor, similarity and analogy……………………………………………………………………....19 Figure 2.2. The inferential system in Escandell-Vidal’s model….……………....53 Figure 2.3. The social system in Escandell-Vidal’s model……….……………...54 Figure 2.4. The architecture of an integrated pragmatic theory….………………57 Figure 2.5. The independent, mediator and dependent variables of the study…...59 Figure 4.1. Hypothesized SEM model………………………………………….102 Figure 4.2. Final SEM model before modifications…………………………….103 Figure 4.3. Final SEM model…………………………………………………...106 Figure 5.1. Analogue-Building Process for ASL TREE….…………………….157 Figure 5.2. The proposed inferer model………………………………………...162 Figure 5.3. The proposed performer model………………………………...…..165 Figure 5.4. The proposed bodily communication model……………………….168