This paper examines a particular PROLOG implementation of Discourse Representation theory (DR theory) constructed at the University of Texas. The implementation also contains a Lexical Functional Grammar parser that provides f-structures; these f-structures are then translated into the semantic representations posited by DR theory, structures which are known as Discourse Representation Structur...

This paper examines a statistics debate among African American caregivers raising children with disabilities for insights into the work of "African American mothering." Using ethnographic, narrative and discourse analyses, we delineate the work that African American mothers do--in and beyond this conversation--to cross ideological and epistemological boundaries around race and disability. Their...

Joining a growing body of research in an attempt to further understand climate change discourse, this paper examines the narrative representation articles on Mongabay Indonesia (Mongabay.co.id), news site focused environmental issues. This focuses published Q1 2022 and 2023 assess how agendas emerge said time periods. Stibbe’s multi-faceted ecolinguistic framework, aligned with Critical Discour...

In this Interactive Storytelling (IS) work, we provide a framework for automating several aspects of staging the activities of a population of narrative agents and their interactions. Narrative agents can have differing levels of narrative relevance within the situated narrative actions which are visualised within a 3D real-time virtual world. The solution we propose here offers a framework for...

Little is known about the recovery of narrative discourse after stroke. While several studies have analyzed the recovery of language in individuals with aphasia, few known studies exist on the recovery of narrative discourse in stroke survivors, particularly those who have not been diagnosed with aphasia. In this study, we evaluated the cohesiveness of narrative discourse in a cohort of individ...

This paper examines the intersections between trauma and literature crime fiction, more specifically. By looking at representations of in it is argued here that novels involves a multilayered complex discourse generates its own narrative, one relies on techniques like fragmentation, repetition, puzzle-solving, deliberate vagueness, obscurity. It also proposed use as lens to examine narratives b...

We present novel computational experiments using William Labov’s theory of narrative analysis. We describe his six elements of narrative structure and construct a new corpus based on his most recent work on narrative. Using this corpus, we explore the correspondence between Labovs elements of narrative structure and the implicit discourse relations of the Penn Discourse Treebank, and we constru...