greimas and other semioticians of the paris school believe that reality is always illusive and that the factors affecting the formation of a narrative are always ambiguous. based on this view, a narrative is always a simulation of reality. based on greimas' actants model, this paper presents an analysis of two stories from tarikh-e beyhaghi, with the aim of revealing two types of narratives; th...

Individuals with Asperger syndrome/High Functioning Autism fail to spontaneously attribute mental states to the self and others, a life-long phenotypic characteristic known as mindblindness. We hypothesized that mindblindness would affect the dynamics of conversational interaction. Using generative models, in particular Gaussian mixture models and observed influence models, conversations were c...

Nursing work is intertwined with a number of technologies. This paper explores the work practices in a pediatric intensive care unit, and discusses some possible directions for introducing new technologies. Work in intensive care is approached as a set of complex and networked practices that are characterized by dynamism and reflexivity of situated action. We observed how, in the intensive care...

Through a series of interrelated developments, software is imbuing everyday objects with capacities that allow them to do additional and new types of work. On the one hand, objects are remade and recast through interconnecting circuits of software that make them machine readable. On the other, objects are gaining calculative capacities and awareness of their environment that allow them to condu...

The paper looks into the expression of intensification with parametric nouns such as PRICE, COST, FEE, RATE, etc., focusing on collocations these nouns form with intensifying adjectives, inchoative and causative intensifying verbs and corresponding de-verbal nouns. Degrees of intensification possible with these nouns are discussed, as well as analytical vs. synthetic expression of intensificati...

Digital technologies and users of these interact with each other in different ways. This study explores the influence this interaction on users’ behavior construction practice: where how do digital their users, what is effect? The theory technical mediation applied to understand influences. deepens analysis human-technology interactions by adding that humans co-shape other. Based a literature r...

This study aims to describe the actant in The Maze Runner novel based on scheme of actant, and structure story. Methods data collection is done by reading notes technique. uses content analysis because it prioritizes depth appreciation interactions between concepts that are being studied empirically. results research show there three acts which divided into chapters this novel. functional struc...