Narrative discourse : an essay in method
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on residents at senior citizens homes and their subjective view about the importance of various indicators concerning quality of life which are influenced by regular physical activity and found that physically active people attach great significance to surroundings as a dimension alongside all variables which are in connection with physical activity.
Abstract: The thesis is focused on residents at senior citizens homes and their subjective view about the importance of various indicators concerning quality of life which are influenced by regular physical activity. The research was performed within the Bruntal region and included eighty-five informants. The first part of SQUALA standardized questionnaire was used for collecting information about the quality of life, in particular to discover the subjective importance of component dimensions, and data about physical activity was collected by means of the IPAQ standardized questionnaire. The thesis is based on methodology of the research plan for MSVVaS SR VEGA project No. 1/0702/10 solved at Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava. The findings have shown that the most important indicator for the participating group of informants is their health. The physical self -sufficiency and capability to take care of oneself has come second and at the same time the informants consider regular physical activity not very important. By making a comparison of both researches considerable differences between their findings have been found out. Both inter-individual and intra-individual differences, such as probands’ age, gender, knowledge, regularity, intensity, and frequency of physical activity, were taken into consideration in the evaluation process of individual indicators as well as dimensions. It was revealed that also those variables af fect the subjective perception of life-quality. Probands aged under sixty-nine are more interested in indicators of physical health and the level of physical self -sufficiency dimension than the other participants. Physically active people attach great significance to surroundings as a dimension alongside all variables which are in connection with physical activity. A statistically significant finding of the evaluation in terms of gender was that female-informants attach greater significance to mental health as well as social relationships dimension than male-informants and that differences occured at two less important indicators as far as the evaluation is concerned.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the power of narrative and its relationship to post-structuralism is discussed. But the focus is on the post-Structuralism of narrative, and not on the structure of narrative.
Abstract: Figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the power of narrative Helen Fulton Part I. The Basics of Narrative Theory: 2. Narrative concepts Rosemary Huisman 3. From structuralism to post-structuralism Rosemary Huisman Part II. Film as Narrative and Visual Mode: 4. Stories and plots Julian Murphet 5. Narrative time Julian Murphet 6. Narrative voice Julian Murphet 7. Point of view Julian Murphet 8. Novel to film Helen Fulton 9. Film narrative and visual cohesion Helen Fulton Part III. Television: Narratives and Ideology: 10. The genres of television Anne Dunn 11. Television news as narrative Anne Dunn 12. Aspects of narrative in series and serials Rosemary Huisman 13. Soap-operas and sit-coms Rosemary Huisman Part IV. Radio and Print Journalism: 14. Structures of radio drama Anne Dunn 15. Radio news and interviews Anne Dunn 16. Print news as narrative Helen Fulton 17. Analysing the discourse of news Helen Fulton Part V. Popular Print Culture: 18. Magazine genres Rosemary Huisman 19. Advertising narratives Rosemary Huisman 20. Conclusion: postmodern narrative and media Helen Fulton Glossary Bibliography Index.
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In view of the needs of contemporary metonymy theory, the book as discussed by the authors has the following two main goals: 1) to find a reliable set of criteria allowing us to distinguish metonymy from related semantic phenomena, and 2) to construct a systematic taxonomy of metonymmy types.
Abstract: In view of the needs of contemporary metonymy theory, the book has the following two main goals: 1 It attempts to characterise metonymy, i.e. to find a reliable set of criteria allowing us to distinguish metonymy from related semantic phenomena 2 The book considers the connections between metonymy and some grammatical phenomena, on the one hand, and between metonymy and so-called pragmatic inference, on the other hand. The book also addresses several other matters of importance within the current debate on metonymy such as its boundaries with literal uses of language, the problem of distinguishing metonymy from synecdoche, the interaction between metonymy and metaphor, and the complex issue of building a systematic taxonomy of metonymy types.
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28 Nov 2011TL;DR: Barbara Dancygier as discussed by the authors discusses the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation and argues that if a text means something to someone, there have to be linguistic phenomena that make it possible.
Abstract: How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation. Barbara Dancygier discusses literary texts as linguistic artifacts, describing the processes which drive the emergence of literary meaning. If a text means something to someone, she argues, there have to be linguistic phenomena that make it possible. Drawing on blending theory and construction grammar, the book focuses its linguistic lens on the concepts of the narrator and the story, and defines narrative viewpoint in a new way. The examples come from a wide spectrum of texts, primarily novels and drama, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Jan Potocki and Mikhail Bulgakov.
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01 Jul 2019
TL;DR: This work presents a new dataset of literary events—events that are depicted as taking place within the imagined space of a novel and applies this model to a corpus of novels split across two dimensions—prestige and popularity—and demonstrates that there are statistically significant differences in the distribution of events for prestige.
Abstract: In this work we present a new dataset of literary events—events that are depicted as taking place within the imagined space of a novel. While previous work has focused on event detection in the domain of contemporary news, literature poses a number of complications for existing systems, including complex narration, the depiction of a broad array of mental states, and a strong emphasis on figurative language. We outline the annotation decisions of this new dataset and compare several models for predicting events; the best performing model, a bidirectional LSTM with BERT token representations, achieves an F1 score of 73.9. We then apply this model to a corpus of novels split across two dimensions—prestige and popularity—and demonstrate that there are statistically significant differences in the distribution of events for prestige.
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TL;DR: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954 as mentioned in this paper, et les images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque
Abstract: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954.Deux images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque.
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