In this article the participants report on a two year research project titled Textuality and Videogames; Interactivity, Narrative Space and Role Play that ran from September 2001, until late 2003 at the Institute of Education, University of London. After presenting an overview of the project, including the methodologies we have adopted, and the questions we have sought to address, we outline tw...

The IVANHOE project can be understood in various ways – an interpretive environment, a tool of collaborative critical thinking, a pedagogical game for studying cultural materials – it emerges out of a basic shift in the theory of texts and textuality. IVANHOE is regulated by seven key ideas: 1. The textual field is a Baktinian space (heteroglossia); 2. In textual space, a equals a if and only i...

Much good work on Translation Studies (TS) has concentrated on the verbal text. Nevertheless, in our post-modern world, multi-modality is exploited to the maximum, as advertising shows. In turn, hyper-textuality is also a common feature of today’s advertising messages. Furthermore, both multi-modality and hyper-textuality are ideologically designed not only to sell products but to promote entir...

This paper presents a new extractive approach to automatic summarization based on the gist of the source text. The gist-based system, called GistSumm (GIST SUMMarizer), uses the gist as a guideline to identify and select text segments to include in the final extract. Automatically produced extracts have been evaluated under the light of gist preservation and textuality.

The book of Ecclesiastes shows Qoheleth’s viewpoints that seem contradictory. On the one hand, Qoheleth looks like a pessimistic nihilist about life under sun, which is judged in vain because everything leads to death. However, on other also optimistic with his advice enjoy pleasure through eating, drinking, and joyful living. Therefore, it not surprising was once considered neurotic who doubte...