A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified. Educat...

In this paper we define agreement in terms of shared public commitments, and implicit agreement is conditioned on the semantics of the relational speech acts (e.g., Narration, Explanation) that each agent performs. We provide a consistent interpretation of disputes, and updating a logical form with the current utterance always involves extending it and not revising it, even if the current utter...

In his article "Borges's Postmodern Landscape" Mario Vrbančić examines specific constructs of space -among them heterotopia (Michel Foucault) and hyperreality (Jean Baudrillard) -and applies them to narration and narrative strategies in Jorge Luis Borges's texts. Vrbančić posits that postmodern mapping undermines our known familiar geography and that authors like Borges who experimented with di...

In this paper, we try to bridge the gap between different dimensions/incarnations of mathematical knowledge: MKM representation formats (content), their human-oriented languages (source, presentation), their narrative linearizations (narration), and relational presentations used in the semantic web. The central idea is to transport solutions from software engineering to MKM regarding the parall...

We present a novel interaction technique that helps to make printed information more accessible to those with low or no textual literacy skills. AudioCanvas allows cameraphone users to interact directly with their own photos of media items to receive audio feedback or narration on demand.

Drone warfare disrupts the generally understood experience of war, and drone operators’ distance from battlefield has called into question authenticity their experiences as participants in conflict. This article examines autobiographies three US military operators, analysing how narration is discursively oriented to particular spatial ideological perspectives. It argues that linguistic construc...

This paper presents a functional approach towards the problem domain of Information Retrieval System built upon a narration based search text. The presented system retrieves documents from the background collection by extracting the domain specific significant keywords and other relevant phrases from a given narrative search text. The narrative search text can be a description or scenario which...