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[betsybookwyrm]

I'm trying to come up with some terminology for an important concept in my thesis, and I thought I might ask for opinions here, seeing as there are lots of you from a variety of backgrounds (including lots of English/literature/communication/language sort of people, for whom this term might actually be relevant

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[mammatash]

"excuse for roadtrip"
but...first and foremost i'm a driver and i get restless.

[betsybookwyrm]

:D

I was looking for something more along the lines of 'story map' (but better), but I do see your way of thinking!

[kaylan]

Hmmm. Good question! How about 'informed imagined landscape'? Or maybe 'informed visualisation' or something along those lines?

I mean, I've never called it that, but it was the first phrase that came to mind when I tried to think of a technical term. I think normally I just call it "the picture in my head", heh.

[betsybookwyrm]

Oooh, I do like the 'landscape' bit.

It's hard, because I need something concise (I'm going to be using the term an awful lot, including in mathsy stuff), but I'd like something that is easy to understand what I'm talking about from...

It's one of those obvious things that we never think about, I think!

[kaylan]

What about just 'imagined landscape' then? That term sounds somewhat familiar now that I write it, though... may be worth a google to see whether it has been used before.

[katrina_splat]

I'm avoiding reading other comments while I have a think about this...I have a feeling that another language might hold the answer here. You could try randomly emailing Rob Pensalfini (r.pensalfini@uq.edu.au from the UQ website) who is a cool dude to see if he has any ideas. I think he'd be up for a little brainstorming about it. Or do some serious Googling

[betsybookwyrm]

I did two courses with Rob last year! He is pretty cool, isn't he? What do you know him from? Something Shakespeare-y?

I don't think the painting stuff will do well for a term (though I do like 'landscape' as said above), but I'll have to make sure I use the metaphor in my thesis somewhere to help explain it! Thanks :)

Current ideas I'm juggling:
- story map
- imagined map
- imagined landscape
- conceptual landscape

[katrina_splat]

I know him from Ling1010 - English through Time and Space...but I'm sure I've had him as a guest lectuerer at some point. He rocks :D.

Keep us posted.

[betsybookwyrm]

Oh, yes, I remember he took one lecture of that when I did it (Ilana Mushin was the main lecturer that semester). I did Morphology and Advanced Linguistics Research or whatever it was called with him last year. He's fun :) I saw his Shakepeare ensemble's Twelfth Night production a couple of years ago, too.

I will!

[betsybookwyrm]

They're not bad terms, but I'm trying to find something a little more... evocative, I guess

But I'm really glad that my description of what I wanted made sense! That was half the reason I posted here, actually. I've been having trouble explaining it properly.

[sum_pisces]

percieved..something? percieved image/landscape or something? mental/visual perception? wikipedia has a page on mental images that gave me that, may or may not inspire you about others?