Excuse me for making an interjection from nowhere so to speak, but
surely in this situation a mental image is always constructed- in this
instance from a mixture of previous visual experiences (of museums,
boats etc). Even if it there are some people (with no imagination) who
simply construct a mental note of the words 'Maritime Museum', this is
also surely visual. What typeface do the words appear in?
Yours in non-academic ignorance,
Martin Salisbury
APU Cambridge School of Art
On 15 Sep 2005, at 00:28, Christopher Kueh wrote:
> Dear List, am forwarding the following on behalf of Chuck, cheers.
>
>
>
> Chris and Francois:
>
> On 9/13/05 9:14 PM, "Christopher Kueh" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>
>> Could one conceive any other kind of mental imagery, besides
>> the "visual"?
>> Yes. If the person, again in my research, has no idea of how the
>> Maritime
>> Museum looks like, and has only encounter with the symbolic
>> representation
>> of the museum, s/he can only construct a mental note of the museum in
>> language - the words 'Maritime Museum'.
>
> I don't think Chris is giving enough credit to the synergistic,
> metaphoric
> role of symbols (either visual or linguistic.). For example, what one
> thinks
> when cued by "maritime" interacts with what one thinks in response to
> "museum" to construct an integral interpretation of the terms - a
> conceptual
> blend in Fauconnier's terms - that renders the symbolic meaning more
> complex
> and linked to other meanings and experiences. Symbols are never simple
> and
> merely iconographic, they have extensions beyond the objects they are.
>
> Chuck
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