Discourse and Inference

The power of the unsaid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngFRDPk-lP8

In this short video, film director Michael Hazanavicius reflects on the power of inference in film and on making the 2011 silent movie The Artist.

The clues to a great story

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_stanton_the_clues_to_a_great_story

In this TED Talk, film director Andrew Stanton, who made the nearly language-less film WALL-E, suggests that viewers want to do the cognitive work of putting 2 + 2 together.

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