RESULTADOS Y DISCUSIÓN
3.1. Análisis e interpretación de la encuesta aplicada a estudiantes
In the model sketched in this paper, cognitive semiotics is the broadest do- main in which study of cognitive bases for perspective-taking—that is, processes of construal—can be situated. In this domain, the question is how the perspectival structure of embodied human experience finds re- flexes in sign systems of all kinds, and how perspective-based information is parsed out in monomodal versus multimodal texts (or communicative practices). To restate the question: how do relevant cognitive capacities and constraints affect the organization and sequencing of constellations of signs—in sign systems that may exploit either a single semiotic channel or
else multiple channels to encode perspectivally enabled and constrained construals of a storyworld? Treatments of perspective in cognitive lin- guistics are narrower in scope, focusing on how underlying cognitive abil- ities related to perspective are reflected in the organization of verbal lan- guage in particular. Meanwhile, cognitive-narratological research on per- spective—that is, research on the cognitive bases for perspective-taking processes in narratively organized sign systems of all sorts, verbal as well as nonverbal, monomodal as well as multimodal—is situated at an inter- mediate level of generality. Compared with cognitive semiotics, cognitive narratology takes a more targeted approach: it explores the perspectival grounding not of sign systems as such but rather of sign systems that exhibit a narrative profile. Compared with cognitive-linguistic research on perspective, the cognitive-narratological approach is at once more general and more specific: it is not restricted to the study of construal processes in narratives conveyed through verbal language, but by the same token it limits itself to how construal operates in narratively organized discourse as opposed to language use more broadly.
Although the present paper explores ideas pertinent for each of these domains of inquiry, its chief concern has been to begin characterizing what a specifically cognitive-narratological approach to perspective might involve—to start detailing the distinctive scope, methods, and aims of such an approach. As I hope to have demonstrated, further work in this area will require closer scrutiny of the areas of intersection among pro- cesses of construal, dimensions of narrative structure, and the repre- sentational properties and capacities of the particular semiotic environ- ments through which stories are told. In turn, integrative research of this kind will have the added benefit of helping to establish the place of cog- nitive narratology within the architecture of inquiry. For the purposes of further theory building, including but not limited to future work on cog- nitive aspects of narrative perspective, the following working definition may suffice: cognitive narratology is the domain of study whose essential concern is the nexus of narrative and mind, that is, the mind-relevant as- pects of storytelling practices, wherever—and by whatever means—those practices occur.
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