Le cinéma comme forme de communication floue

• Main Author: Laurent Jullier
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Société Française de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication 2016-09-01
• Series: Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
• Subjects: relevance theory; theory of Mind; embodied cognition; film theory; film analysis; pragmatics
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/2208

Blurred communication, which lays on Sperber & Wilson’s Relevance Theory, requires us to attribute mental states to other people. In front of a movie, not only we have to imagine which kind of intentions has got the author (such an hypothesis is developped by Alessandro Pignocchi), but we have to infer what the characters are thinking and feeling (that is what the essay is about). The blurred aspect of film communication also has some origins in the protolanguage of moving images, which shares number of characteristics with inner representations – both are made with respect of embodied cognition. Besides, « understanding » movies or TV series is not the unique operation we’re familiar with : describing, analyzing, interpreting, having an experience, appreciating, using them also matters. No need to say thaht such a vast research program can only be reached by an interdisciplinary approach.