English Dictionary

cognitive estrangement

名詞

不可算名詞

(literature, narratology) A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are lent plausibility by their being placed in the context of the fictional universe, which is imagined to be scientifically consistent.

日本語の意味

SF文学などで用いられる物語の論理手法。架空の科学的整合性を持つ世界観の中で、物語上の装置や要素に合理性を持たせることで、説得力を得る方法。 / 架空の科学や理論が整合的に描かれる世界設定を前提に、非現実的な要素に現実味を与える手法。

Through cognitive estrangement, the novelist makes the invented technologies feel plausible by embedding them in a scientifically coherent fictional universe.

小説家は、架空の装置をその世界の科学的整合性の中に位置づけてもっともらしく見せるという語りの手法（認知的異化）を用いることで、創作された技術を信じられるものにしている。

意味（1）

(literature, narratology) A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are lent plausibility by their being placed in the context of the fictional universe, which is imagined to be scientifically consistent.

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia. In the notion of cognitive estrangement, Suvin conflate two distict, but related, ideas of estrangement from earlier literary theory: ostranenie (de-familiarization) from the Russian Formalists, and Berthold Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect). […] Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.