Reading Images Flashcards
Actor
The active participant in an action process is the participant from which the vector emanates or which is fused with the vector.
Goal
The passive participant in an action process is the participant at which the vector is directed.
Interactors
The participants in a transactional action process where the vector could be said to emanate from and be directed at both participants.
Transactional Reaction
An eyeline vector connects two participants, a Reacter and a phenomenon
Reactor
The active participant in a reaction process is the participant whose look creates the eyeline
Phenomenon
The passive participant in a transactional reaction is the participant at which the eyeline is directed, in other words, the participant which forms the object of the Reacter’s look.
Conversion
A process in which a participant, the Relay, is the goal of one action and the Actor of another. This involves a change of state in the participant.
Mental Process
A vector formed by a thought bubble or a similar conventional device connects two participants, the Senser and the Phenomenon.
Senser
The participant from whom thought bubble vector formed emanates
Verbal Process
A vector formed by the arrow-like protrusion of a dialogue balloon or a similar device connects the two.
Sayer
The participant in a verbal process from whom the dialogue balloon emanates.
Utterance
The verbal participant enclosed in the dialogue balloon.
Setting
The setting of a process is recognizable because it is often drawn or painted in less detail, or, in the case of photography, has a softer focus; and because of contrats in colour saturation and overall darkness or lightness between foreground and background.
Means
The means of a process is formed by the tool with which the action is executed.
Accompaniment
An accompaniment is a participant in a narrative structure which has no vectorial relation with other participants and cannot be interpreted as a symbolic attribute.
Narrative
The story of the image( whats going on in the mind of people in the image)
Covert Taxonomy
A set of participants(subordinates) is distributed symmetrically across the picture space, at equal distance from each other, equal in size, and orientated towards the vertical and horizontal axes in the same way,
Single-levelled over taxonomy
A participant is connected to two or more other participants through a tree structure with two levels only.
Multi-levelled overt taxonomy
A participant is connected to other participants through a tree structure with more than two levels. The participants which occupy intermediate levels are interordinates, those which occupy the lowest level, or the highest level subordinates.
Unstructured analytical process
An ordered set of participants is interpreted as the set of parts of a whole which itself is not represented.
Temporal analytical process
A set of participants is ordered lineraly on a time line and interpreted as the set of successive stages of a temporally unfolding process
Exhaustive analytical process
A participant is depicted as made up of a number of parts and the structure is interpreted as showing all the parts from which the whole is made up.
Topological Accuracy
The carrier and the possessive attributes of an analytical process are not drawn to scale, but the way they are interconnected is drawn accurately.
Abstraction
The participants in an analytical process may be concrete.
