Hsien-Yuan Chiu

Bio: Hsien-Yuan Chiu is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blending inheritance & Narrative. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

Analysis of the Narrative Types of “Metaphor” in Animated Short Films

Abstract: The most presented storytelling medium of animation and film are images. The narrative messages that viewers obtain through images are much more rigorous than those from dictation or narration. Therefore, the means to construct story context in an animation narrative is more than the intuitive narrative of character language. Message transmission by hints seems to be an important technique of image narrative in a plot. Potential messages involve metaphors in rhetoric. When applied to an image narrative, linguistic techniques have gone beyond the scope of literal modification. Meaning the viewers’ cognition and past experiences are also involved in the process of image viewing. Therefore, the metaphors in animated movies are a type of narrative produced by multiple elements, as well as a mode of deduction based on real life. According to the related theories of metaphorical mapping, this study explores the analogical narrative process of images in animation cases, as based on Gentner’s structural mapping theory and the blending theory of Fauconnier and Turner. The results of case study show that, in animated movies, analogies are made through similarities in form, meaning the attributes of source and target are blended as the means of metaphor, where the lens movement also contributes to the metaphor of space on the visual psychological level. In summary, this study is expected to serve as a reference for further exploration of the metaphoric narrative of animation in the future.

The Hero’s Journey and Three Types of Metaphor in Pixar Animation

Abstract: Despite the fact that cinema and animation have common features, one of the fundamental differences between them is that animation uses metaphors much more freely. This current study explores this ...

Animate Metaphors: Satiring Leaders in Tenas Effendy’s Pantun Kelakar

Abstract: This writing deals with an analysis of Pantun Kelakar written by Tenas Effendy by focusing on 4 ( four) of them and analysis the animate metaphors ( animal metaphors) used in these four pantuns in exploring how those animate metaphors reflects leaders’ characters. This study is descriptive analysis where this study aims to describe the existing phenomena. In this case, this study describes the animate metaphors in Pantun Kelakar of Tenas effendy which satire leaders. The animal metaphors found in those 4 pantuns are; crocodile, monkey, lion and snake, and those animals are the analogy of leaders whose characters are associated with the characters of the animals in which they are associated with. Crocodile is the metaphor to satire leader who ignore the rules in taking or consuming something which leads to the life without guidance. The monkey is the metaphor to satire a leader who does immoral deeds. A lion is used as the metaphor of powerful leader who destroys his/her people and snake is the metaphor of sly or cunning leader. by describing those metaphors, this analysis may contribute to create awareness for leaders whose characters are reflected by the metaphors to treat this analysis as a self-reminder to change and improve the person’s character. and in the same time, this analysis may also contribute to give knowledge about some kinds of leaders with their specific characters in leading their people.