In the eighteenth century, dramatic electrical performances were favourite entertainments for the upper classes, yet the therapeutic uses of electricity also reached the lower strata of society. This change in the social composition of electrical audiences attracted the attention of John Wesley, who became interested in the subject in the late 1740s. The paper analyses Wesley's involvement in t...

UNLABELLED Past studies on the maximum phonation time (MPT) in children have shown different results in duration. This factor may reflect the neuromuscular and aerodynamic control of phonation in patients; such control might be used as an indicator of other evaluation methods on a qualitative and quantitative basis. AIM To verify measures of MPT and voice acoustic characteristics in 23 childr...

Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...

The development of virtual story-telling is an ever ongoing process. As long as it does not perform on the same level as a human storyteller, there is room for improvement. The Virtual Storyteller, a project of the HMI department of the University of Twente, uses a Text-to-Speech application that creates synthetic speech from text input. It is definitely not a trivial matter to make synthetic s...

We present the Narrator, a Natural Language Generation component used in a digital storytelling system. The system takes as input a formal representation of a story plot, in the form of a causal network relating the actions of the characters to their motives and their consequences. Based on this input, the Narrator generates a narrative in Dutch, by carrying out tasks such as constructing a Doc...

This paper presents a corpus targeting evaluative meaning as it pertains to descriptions of events. The corpus, POLITICAL-ADS is drawn from 141 television ads from the 2008 U.S. presidential race and contains 3945 NPs and 1549 VPs annotated for scalar sentiment from three different perspectives: the narrator, the annotator, and general society. We show that annotators can distinguish these pers...

This research paper takes from some of the narrative structures in novel “The Scattered Fatty” by Mohsen Al-Romali as its subject. It also moves to talk about another structure on which was based, is language that narrator used his narration techniques he adopted course events. The researcher sought cite texts fit position theoretical aspects were mentioned multiplications order complete artist...

In this paper I argue against the theory – popular among theorists of narrative artworks – that we must posit a fictional narrative agent in every narrative artwork in order to explain our imaginative engagement with such works. I accept that every narrative must have a narrator, but I argue that in some central literary cases the narrator is not a fictional agent, but rather the actual author ...

this study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of joseph conrad’s lord jim. it is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. in other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in conrad’s novel. for the introduction, a brief review of conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...