Narrative has been a subject of theoretical reflection and empirical investigation since Aristotle's Poetics. The past century seen growing interest in it, from an increasingly interdisciplinary perspective, leading to truly "narrative turn" the humanities social sciences. purpose this volume is provide overview vast scholarly production, focusing particular on: theories narrative at intersecti...

A discourse planner for (task-oriented) dialogue must be able to make choices about whether relevant, but optional information (for example, the "satellites" in an RST-based planner) Should be communicated. We claim that effective text planners must explicitly model aspects of the Hearer's cognitive state, such as what the hearer is attending to and what inferences the hearer can draw, in ord@r...

TP * PT his position statement is a collection of excerpts from my newly-published journal article “Using End User Environments to Mediate Conversations: A ‘Communicative Dimensions’ Framework” [1]. Because the work is relevant to that being done in the Cognitive Dimensions Community, and I would like to attend the VL-HCC ’05 CD workshop in order to disseminate the work and exchange ideas with ...

This essay outlines an applied approach for examining message reception and processing among natural disaster volunteers. It is argued that an applied approach provides analysis of volunteers’ decision-making processes that extends to cognitive, cultural, and communicative influences on the decision to volunteer. Implications for future research on volunteerism in natural disasters are discusse...

Integrating accounts of speech production: the devil is in the representational details Brenda Rapp, Adam Buchwald & Matthew Goldrick a Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA b Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University, New York, NY, USA c Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA Published online: ...

Information graphics found in popular media contain communicative signals which help the viewer infer the graphic designer’s intended message. One signal is the relative effort required for different recognition tasks. This paper presents a model of the effort required to recognize a trend in a grouped bar chart. The model is developed using the ACT-R cognitive framework and validated via eye t...

*Veikko Jousmaki, Nobuyuki Nishitani Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Cognitive Sciences Section, Department of Sensory & Communicative Disorders, Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Tokorozawa, Japan Department of Brain Pathophysiology, Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University Graduate...

adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. the status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of t...