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передача содержания текста, раздел 6


Получение информации

Дифференциация "факт/мнение"

При получении информации из текста или изображения мы классифицируем её как факт (fact) или мнение (opinion).
Если при этом информация оценивается, мнение превращается в оценочное суждение (value judgment).

Пример

Следующие текстовые примеры показывают, что беспристрастное описание фактов занимает гораздо больше места, чем мнение или оценочное суждение.

Пример ниже, фрагмент сценария фильма "The Messenger", демонстрирует сложность однозначного восприятия смысла полученной информации.

THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC

by Andrew Birkin and Luc Besson

MAN
God asked you to do something?
JEANNE
Yes... lots of things!
MAN
You mean God said, "I need you, Jeanne?"
JEANNE
No, but... he sent me so many signs!
MAN
What signs?
JEANNE
Like... like the wind... and the clouds... and... the bells... and what about that sword lying in the field... that was a sign...!
MAN
No. That was a sword in a field.
JEANNE
But... it didn't just get there by itself.
MAN
True -- every event has an infinite number of causes -- but why pick one rather than another? There are many ways a sword might find itself in a field...
FLASH: A group of soldiers on horseback trot across the field of Jeanne's childhood. The last soldier's sword is coming loose, and ends up falling into the long grass...
MAN
Seems a perfectly valid explanation... but how about this one...
FLASH: Two young children are hurrying with the sword when an old man calls them from far away --
OLD MAN
Hey, you little devils -- come back!
The two children drop the sword in the long grass (in the same spot as before) and run off...
MAN
But then again, there are other possibilities...
FLASH: A man is being chased across the field by a couple of English soldiers out looting. His heavy sword is slowing him down -- he flings it into the long grass...
MAN
... or even faster...
FLASH: The same man running across the field is suddenly hit by an arrow from nowhere. He drops the sword in the long grass, but manages to stagger off into the forest...
MAN
... and that's without counting the inexplicable...
FLASH: A man crosses the field. For no apparent reason whatsoever, he drops the sword and keeps on walking...
MAN
Yet from an infinite number of possibilities, you had to pick this one...
FLASH: A peel of thunder -- clouds swirl -- a familiar wind stirs the long grass -- a fabulous shaft of light illuminates the patch -- the sword slowly descends from the heavens and lands gently in the grass. Mission accomplished, the shaft of heavenly light disappears.
Jeanne is bewildered...
MAN
You didn't see what was, Jeanne. You saw what you wanted to see.
... speechless.

http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/themessenger.txt


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