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The Impact of Subtitles on Comprehension of Narrative Film

Authors
Lee, MinaRoskos, BeverlyEwoldsen, David R.
Issue Date
1-Oct-2013
Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Citation
MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY, v.16, no.4, pp 412 - 440
Pages
29
Journal Title
MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY
Volume
16
Number
4
Start Page
412
End Page
440
URI
https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/11202
DOI
10.1080/15213269.2013.826119
ISSN
1521-3269
1532-785X
Abstract
Theoretically, viewers of a movie strive to construct coherent mental models to understand the local events as they occur, and to link these situation mental models coherently to understand the movie as a whole. This article reports the results of two experiments on the impact of subtitles on the local and global coherence of mental models of a movie. In both experiments, the extent to which attention and memory resources available for generating local and global mental models was manipulated by having half of the participants watch the movie in English (standard condition) while the other half watched in French with English subtitles (subtitled condition). Experiment 1 examined patterns of inferences generated during movie watching. Results showed that participants in the standard condition made more elaborative inferences than those in the subtitled condition, indicating a higher level of global coherence. In contrast, results also showed that participants in the subtitled condition made more bridging inferences than those in the standard condition, indicating a higher level of local coherence. In Experiment 2, participants sorted movie events according to perceived similarity of events, and the data were submitted to a Pathfinder analysis. The resulting collective network of events for the standard and subtitled conditions corroborated the results of Experiment 1. We argue that the tradeoff between local and global coherence should be addressed in current theories of narrative comprehension.
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