Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, Chinese political leadership has devoted substantial efforts to shape, through media and institutional discourses, a specific narrative its response crisis, framing it as fight in which people, under Xi Jinping Communist Party, promptly came together defeat virus.
 The present paper examines this dominant focusing on language section against COVI...

The increased use of large corpora in narrative research has created new opportunities for empirical research and intelligent narrative technologies. To best exploit the value of these corpora, several research groups are eschewing complex discourse analysis techniques in favor of high-level minimalist narrative annotation schemes that can be quickly applied, achieve high inter-rater agreement,...

This paper describes the development of discourse cohesion in bilingual children, through an analysis of narrative discourses produced by hearing children of deaf parents (HCDP) in both British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English. Reference mechanisms in both languages are described in the context of recent work on narrative and discourse organization development in spoken and sign language....

When we read narrative texts such as novels and newspaper articles, we segment information presented in such texts into discrete events, with distinct boundaries between those events. But do our eyes reflect this event structure while reading? This study examines whether eye movements during the reading of discourse reveal how readers respond online to event structure. Participants read narrati...

Narrative intelligence is fundamental for organizing experiences, understanding our surroundings, and forming predictions about the future [Schank, 1995]. Computational systems that leverage narrative intelligence benefit applications that involve stories including entertainment, education, skill training, and legal decision-making. AI planning research is a popular source of data structures an...

Narrative analysis has both research and pedagogical advantages for use in CSCL. Narrative theory provides multidisciplinary perspectives and methods from diverse fields. Stories are a way of thinking, making meaning, and showing constructivism in action. This paper discusses the advantages of narrative analysis for interpreting online discourse; presents features, methodological challenges, an...

In this work, we have proposed an automatic discourse prediction model. It predicts the discourse information for a sentence. In this study, three discourse modes considered are descriptive, narrative and dialogue. The proposed model is developed using story corpus. The story corpus comprises of audio and its corresponding text transcription of short children stories. The development of this mo...

Abstract The discourse surrounding transgender people has for a long time been influenced by certain narrative practices necessary to authenticate people’s trans status medical professionals. This conventional (master narrative), based on ideals of hetero- and cisnormativity, led stereotypical representations identities. These largely continue exist today. Nevertheless, counter-discourse these ...