purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...

This article explores the narrative relationship between three key figures in the Gospel of John: Jesus, Judas, and Peter. As these characters interact, patterns of contrast gradually emerge. A literary "character" is the sum of "external signs" presented by a text that "correspond to and reveal an otherwise hidden inner nature." Literary characters are therefore complexes of personal traits th...

simulation and contrivance in hariri’s maghamat shaker amery * â  â abstractâ in the fourth century after hijra (a.h), many kinds of rhetoric arts became common and popular in literary texts. in that cultural atmosphere, the maghamat emerged. badi al-zaman al-hamadani was the first to write the maghamat in arabic literature in the second half of the fourth century (a.h). the principal recurre...

We present the Narrator, an NLG component used for the generation of narratives in a digital storytelling system. We describe how the Narrator works and show some examples of generated stories.

Brian Ó Nualláin is a man of many names and voices. The narrative power he posseses exemplified when comparing 'The Plain People Ireland' segments the Cruiskeen Lawn columns in Irish Times, penned under pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen, voice nameless narrator Flann O'Brien's Third Policeman. Within these two works, position intellectual society portrayed through quite different lenses: self-confid...

Personal narratives typically involve a narrator who participates in a sequence of events in the past. The narrator is therefore present at two narrative levels: (1) the extradiegetic level, where the act of narration takes place, with the narrator addressing an audience directly; and (2) the diegetic level, where the events in the story take place, with the narrator as a participant (usually t...

Requirements visualization can contribute to requirements comprehension through the creation of conceptual models. However, these models can become hard to read and current tool support is minimal. Applying the right visualization mechanisms can help construct models that are more readable. To such extent, we present the Interactive Narrator tool: a web application that helps practitioners anal...

This chapter defines professional communication in intercultural contexts. It presents a workable model of culture, connects that model to rhetoric, and provides a method to analyze rhetorics and cultures in intercultural contexts. It also contextualizes the model of intercultural rhetorical research in prevailing paradigms of rhetoric and professional communication, strongly criticizing the lo...