Representational Transformation: A Facilitative Process of Understanding

摘要

Representational transformation is a process through which one representation of a domain is understood in terms of another representation. This is a prevalent strategy that is used by comprehenders to obtain a better understanding of various domains. Metaphoric language is one of the areas in which representational transformation of domains is used. Perhaps one of the most complex areas of representational transformation is mathematics. Mathematicians transform the abstract representation of problems into concrete imageable representations in order to facilitate the process of solving these problems. It is the creative mind that decides which representation is easier to solve and how a difficult-to-process representation can be transformed into an easy-to-process representation. After discussing these subjects, three-dimensional space and motion events, as two domains through which a large number of abstract domains can be understood, are discussed.