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Marie-Laure Ryan
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 86
Citations - 5305
Marie-Laure Ryan is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Narratology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 81 publications receiving 4963 citations.
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Toward a competence theory of genre
TL;DR: This paper argues that the knowledge of such rules should be viewed as a part of the speaker's linguistic competence, and surveys the various types of rules necessary in a genre theory, examines the problems of their formulation in the framework of a semantically based transformational text grammar, and offers a discussion of their hermeneutic function.
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Computing Action: A Narratological Approach
TL;DR: The combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts.
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Semantics, Pragmatics, and Narrativity: A Response to David Rudrum
TL;DR: In this article, Rudrum argues that the notion of narrative as a representation of a sequence of events does not capture the distinction between a set of instructions for building model airplanes and what Rudrum regards as a genuine narrative, namely a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
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Linguistic Models in Narratology: From Structuralism to Generative Semantics
TL;DR: In this article, a simplification of generative semantics is proposed, in which an event to follow another in time when the beginning of the second event follows the start of the first is considered.