AUTHOR=Zeng Yanqin , Xu Ziqi , Chen Liang , Huang Yunxi 

TITLE=Exploring the mechanism of empathy on lens language and linguistic landscape on movie-induced tourism: The moderating effect of cultural differences

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1109328

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1109328

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Research on movie-induced tourism is getting more and more profound, but there is rarely any research on the inner mechanism of audience's empathy for the movie scenes. This article argues that the movie's lens language contributes to the communication between the movie and the audience, which not only helps the audience shape their imagination of the movie scenes, but also contributes to the construction of virtual linguistic landscapes, and promotes the audience to bring their emotions and self-expression into the story, ultimately enhancing the audience's perception of the shooting locations. This article also proposes cultural differences as a factor regulating audience empathy. The findings show that there is a clear logical relationship between lens language and linguistic landscape under the effect of empathy, and cultural differences are indeed an important factor in moderating audience' s empathy for movie scenes and shooting locations.