I just started listening to this podcast several hours ago and must say I am hooked. I have never been involved with the arts and have never really been interested in grammar. I must say though, that I find this broadcast fascinating and making me interested. I was thinking about how Martha and Grant wanted a way to describe the experience of meeting someone in person for the first time when the only impression of them they have had is the radio personality they have experienced. I just wanted to see what people thought of what I came up with in a few minutes because I thought it was neat, which is the idea that you have a 'Perceptual Revision' of that person upon meeting them face to face. What does everyone or anyone think?
The only term that comes to mind is "concretization." ??? Not as elegant as your "perceptual revision." I think I like yours better.
Cataclysmic reorientation? That describes my experience the first time I met a radio news broadcaster with whom I was preparing to perform a play. His voice, of course, was very familiar, but his appearance and demeanor were not at all as I had expected. That feeling was tempered, I think, by the fact that this was also my first close encounter with a "celebrity," an experience that no longer holds the sense of awe that it once did.
Peter
tromboniator said:
His voice, of course, was very familiar, but his appearance and demeanor were not at all as I had expected.Peter
I never met Garrison Keillor, but I listened to his voice on Prairie Home Companion for many years. When I finally saw his photo the image was not at all what I expected. Like how did that deep resonant voice come out of that head?
Maybe the term we're looking for is indeed "perceptual revision."
How about audio-visual dissonance (AV dissonance for short)?
Emmett