Saillance physique et saillance cognitive

Salience phenomena put an element from a linguistic or visual message forward. By confronting works resulting from various research fields, we propose a classification of the factors that make an entity salient in a linguistic utterance or in a visual scene. Some of these factors depend only on the...

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Main Author: Frédéric Landragin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2004-12-01
Series:Corela
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/603
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Summary:Salience phenomena put an element from a linguistic or visual message forward. By confronting works resulting from various research fields, we propose a classification of the factors that make an entity salient in a linguistic utterance or in a visual scene. Some of these factors depend only on the physical characteristics of the message. We then talk about physical salience (or P-salience). Other factors depend on the subject’s cognitive processes. We then talk about cognitive salience (or C-salience). Considering this classification, we show that P-salience and C-salience concepts do not rely on the modality (linguistic or visual) to which they apply. This allows us to lay the foundations for a generic characterization of physical salience, and to draw some conclusions concerning the information structure concept.
ISSN:1638-573X