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Text Mapping as Modelling

• What is a text?
• How is it different from a map?
• What is the relationship to landscape?
• A written or printed text, too, is a space, but a space
• beying quite different spatiotemporal and semiotic

rules than a map does

• …and given the land we meet on…

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The walk and embodied memory

Mediated space

Speech happens in time Orality Map extends in space Geometry Text extends in space Sequentiality

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Living and communicating

body textual space

• ral time

map geometry physical landscape

How we may think

Indexical geometry maps

Narrative/description

• ral and written language

“We often crossed the border. I mean, we wanted to get beyond the town and the lake. It did not divide us really. It was there, true, and it made a distinction between them and us. But it was also a token of the possibility of crossing it. It was some sort of invitation to move beyond.”

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From Oxford I travelled towards the morning sun and reached London in the evening. London Oxford Cambridge

Sign system – context differences

Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

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Time, space and syntax

“B is north east of A”

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Mediation of experience

Landscape mediation

Influences

Embodied personal experience Cultural memory Understand media expressions based on personal embodied experience Influences how landscape is seen

.

The (de)contextualised body

Walking In the context of the landscape Bodily memories Reading, listening Context different from content Media memories

Understanding based on landscape experience Landscape learned from media

? context medium

Media modalities (Elleström)

Modality Map Speech Written text Material Flat surface Sound waves thorugh the air Flat surface Sensorial Seeing, (feeling) Hearing Seeing, (feeling) Spatiotemporal Space manifested in the material interface Cognitive space (Virtual time) Perceptual time Time manifested in the material interface Cognitive space Virtual space Perceptual time Space manifested in the material interface Cognitive space Virtual space Perceptual time Semiotic Symbolic, iconic, indexical Mainly symbolic Mainly symbolic

Sources

• Tromsø Museum, University of Tromsø. Image collection object

numbers: tslf479, tslf481, tslf535, tslf637, tslf1595, tslp12404, tslp13066.

• Kartverket, digital map of Norway. http://kartverket.no/
• Schnitler, Peter. Forslag og Mening om Land-værens Oprætning i

Nordlandene etc. etc. Tronhiem, 1746.

• Ánde Somby joiking. "Riddu Riđđu (8)" by Mates - Own work.

Licensed under CC by commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Riddu_Riđđu_(8).jpg

• Elleström, Lars. “The Modalities of Media: A Model for

Understanding Intermedial Relations.” In Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality, edited by Lars Elleström, 11–48. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2010.

• Eide, Øyvind. Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling :

Between Texts and Maps. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming 2015.

Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

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