In this paper, I want to discuss one type of “pragmatic ambiguity”, i.e. utterances of which it is not clear whether they are sentences of narration or represented speech and thought. Through the discussion of these examples, I will introduce a few notions which seem to me important for the analysis of represented speech and thought, notably the notion of metarepresentation. I will then turn to...

The paper deals with the specific plot features of a popular Swedish travelogue My Son on Galley (1781) in which Jacob Wallenberg describes his journey from Sweden to China 1769–1771. object analysis is general structure travel novels (using Mikhail Bakhtin’s terminology) and travelogues. As result, it proved that linear, chronological structure. It includes not only description itself document...

A corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency (F0) contours was realized for emotional speech synthesis. The method, originally developed for read speech, is to predict command values of the F0 contour generation process model with the input of linguistic information of the sentence to be synthesized. Since the generated F0 contour is under the model constraint, a certain quality is still ...

In 1967 a young woman, Sighle Kennedy, was working on her dissertation about the work of Samuel Beckett. She wrote him a letter, asking him to evaluate the validity of her thesis. Beckett wrote a short note back that included the following sentence: "If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work, my points of departure would be the 'Naught is more real . . . ' and the 'Ubi nih...

Gestures support and enrich speech across various forms of communication. Effective use of gestures by speakers improves the listeners’ comprehension of the spoken material and their perceptions of the speaker. How might robots use gestures to improve human-robot interaction? What gestures are most effective in achieving such improvements? This paper seeks answers to these questions by presenti...

This article seeks to interrogate the construction of identities in Edgar Tekeres A Lifetime of Struggle for the purposes of establishing political legitimacy and heroism for himself.This article observers that the autobiographical narrator attempts to achieve this end through constructing heroic identities on a multiplicity of sites such as heredity, military,prisoner,welfare,masculine,intelle...

The authors tested schematic information processing as a function of attractiveness stereotyping in two studies. An adult experimenter read children (ages 3 to 7 years) eight different stories in which a child narrator encountered two characters who varied in level of attractiveness and displayed positive or negative traits that were either consistent or inconsistent with the “beauty is good” s...

Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder, was named in 1951 by Richard Asher after Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron Münchhausen (1720-1797), whose name had become proverbial as the narrator of false and ridiculously exaggerated exploits. The first edition of Münchhausen's tales appeared anonymously in 1785 (Baron Münchausen's narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns in Russia), and was wr...

The article analyzes Pushkin's poem "Eugene Onegin" and two opposite interpretations of it, by Alexander Minkin critic Vladimir Kozarovetsky. author partially agrees with the interpretation proposed Minkin, objects to Kozarovetsky, but mainly interprets on basis his concept art methodology him for analyzing works art. views Kozarovetsky are compared: first believes that describes moral evolutio...

the report considered for this part is a handwritten by the narrator of fajr headquarter, martyr mohammad garakani, in ramadan operation. these kinds of reports are written immediately after the operation. this report is about fajr headquarter function in ramadan operation