Background: Recent continental-phenomenological psychiatry emphasizes pragmatics or social and contextual inappropriateness as a core disorder of schizophrenia, which is potentially relevant to early identification and treatment. Objective: However, there are hardly any studies that examine the background population’s sensitivity to inappropriateness in schizophrenia, even if “common” people, f...

This paper describes the linguistic resources people with anterograde amnesia draw on in conversational narratives. Because of their problems in recollecting post-morbid memories, it is particularly challenging for such individuals to refer to personal experiences. Seven patients with anterograde memory impairments due to neurotrauma were interviewed one year post-event. Among other topics, the...

Automated text classification technologies have enabled researchers to amass enormous collections of personal narratives posted to English-language weblogs. In this paper, we explore analogous approaches to identify personal narratives in Chinese weblog posts as a precursor to the future empirical studies of cross-cultural differences in narrative structure. We describe the collection of over h...

In this article, Caroline Brown, a literature professor who focuses on American and African Diasporic writing, and Alexia Pollack, a biology professor with expertise in neuropharmacology, recount their experiences teaching across the disciplines in one another's respective classrooms, finding points of intersection and divergence, and creating classroom dialogues from the resultant encounters. ...

Most research on na r ra t i ve tex t summarisation has been conducted w i t h i n the paradigm of experimental psychology. But recent language processing research i n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e suggests that the predominant theory of tex t summarisation requi res fu r the r examinat ion. Seemingly minor s t r u c t u r a l mod i f i ca t ions of a s tory can reau l t in a i g ...

ABSTRACT Discourse Diversity Database (3D) is a corpus designed for clinical linguistics research. It consists of oral speech samples three different genres: picture-elicited narratives, personal stories, and picture-based instructions. The sub-sections 3D include recordings by Russian speakers from independent groups: people with brain tumors before after tumor removal, schizophrenia, neurolog...

A theory is elaboration tolerant to the extent that new information can be incorporated with only simple changes. The simplest change is conjoining new information, and only conjunctive changes are considered in this paper. In general adding information to a theory should often change, rather than just enlarge, its consequences, and this requires that some of the reasoning be non-monotonic. Our...

Creating dramatic narratives for real-time virtual reality environments is complicated by the lack of temporal distance between the occurrence of an event and its telling in the narrative. This paper describes the application of a multiprocessing operating system architecture to the creation of adaptive narratives, narratives that use autonomous actors or agents to create real-time dramatic exp...

faculty research workshops Laurie Brand, the Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California, delivered a CIRS Monthly Dialogue on “The Politics of National Narratives: The Evolution of ‘Revolution’ in Egypt” on March 23, 2015. The talk reflected some of the main themes presented in her recent book, Official Stories: ...

Title of dissertation: ARTISTIC AND ETHICAL VALUES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF NARRATIVES Alessandro Giovannelli, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jerrold Levinson. Department of Philosophy The ethical criticism of art has received increasing attention in contemporary aesthetics, especially with respect to the evaluation of narratives. The most prominent philosophical def...