Models of narrative have been proposed from many perspectives and most of these nowadays promote further the notion that narrative is a transmedial phenomenon: i.e., stories can be told making use of distinct and multiple forms of expressions. This raises a range of theoretical and practical questions, as well as rendering the task of providing computational models of narrative both more intere...

this paper examines cases of the translator's presence in translated narrative texts. after reviewing the literature, hermans believes that a translated text belongs to the second voice which is always present in a translation. the paper elaborates, through some translated passages into persian, upon three cases of a translator's presence; namely, cases where the text’s orientation to...

In this talk I propose that a core property of adverbial meaning is the ability (or the lack thereof) of an adverbial to introduce a new time discourse referent. The core data comes from that same day in narrative discourse. I argue that unlike other previously studied temporal adverbials—which introduce a new time discourse referent and relate it to the speech time or a previously mentioned ti...

This paper has two objectives: one is to explore the dialectics of remembering and forgetting, an issue traditionally neglected in psychological memory research; the other is to question the widespread dichotomy of individual and social memory. To do so, a cultural-historical perspective is outlined that allows us to conceive of individual memory as an inextricable part of an overarching cultur...

In summarizing a message, it is necessary to access knowledge about linguistic relations, subject matter knowledge about the domain of discourse, and knowledge about the user’s goals for the summary. This paper investigates the feasibility of integrating these knowledge sources by using computational linguistic and expert system techniques to generate one-line summaries from the narrative conte...

Arabic feminist narratives have taken significant steps towards developing their unique amidst numerous other discourses that attempt to confiscate elements. The features constituting Arab discourse been and varied, but narrative stereotypes repeated disclosures almost dominated the general direction of themes. Accordingly, this research paper adopts a non-stereotypical approach investigating i...

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An interactive fiction system has been developed with a rich representation of simulated locations, actors, and things as well as events. This paper discusses one particular type of narrative variation that the system can generate: variation in order. To determine how to concisely specify a possibly non-chronological order for narrating events, a formalization of Genette’s categories of order a...