Showing papers on "Narrative structure published in 2023"
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a new strategy to perform emotion recognition, which is based on the homologous structure of emotions and narratives, and tested it with 117 participants who recounted two narratives about their past emotional experiences, including one positive and one negative episode.
Abstract: One important application of natural language processing (NLP) is the recognition of emotions in text. Most current emotion analyzers use a set of linguistic features such as emotion lexicons, n-grams, word embeddings, and emoticons. This study proposes a new strategy to perform emotion recognition, which is based on the homologous structure of emotions and narratives. It is argued that emotions and narratives share both a goal-based structure and an evaluation structure. The new strategy was tested in an empirical study with 117 participants who recounted two narratives about their past emotional experiences, including one positive and one negative episode. Immediately after narrating each episode, the participants reported their current affective state using the Affect Grid. The goal-based structure and evaluation structure of the narratives were analyzed with a hybrid method. First, a linguistic analysis of the texts was carried out, including tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and morphological analysis. Second, an extensive set of rule-based algorithms was used to analyze the goal-based structure of, and evaluations in, the narratives. Third, the output was fed into machine learning classifiers of narrative structural features that previously proved to be effective predictors of the narrator’s current affective state. This hybrid procedure yielded a high average F1 score (0.72). The results are discussed in terms of the benefits of employing narrative structure analysis in NLP-based emotion recognition.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyze the narrative characteristics of the animation The Story of Mari based on time and spatial characteristics and examine its meaning, focusing on the animation's inner division and finding the direction of his life.
Abstract: Through The Story of Mari (2002), this paper intends to discuss the narrative characteristics in terms of rediscovering masterpieces that failed to hit the animation. With the domestic animation market centered on works from the United States and Japan, I would like to re-examine the aspect that this text was not loved by audiences in Korea and was evaluated as a lack of narrative even though it was recognized worldwide. This paper studies narrative characteristics centering on the narrative of time and space, focusing on the animation The Story of Mari as a research method to materialize this, the following two methods are applied in combination. First, based on Gerard Genette’s concept of time, which is the basis of narrative structure in movies and novels, the relational categories of order, duration, and frequency are discussed. Second, based on Seymour Chatman’s theory, it is analyzed through elements such as size, outline and texture, density, location, and color, which are spatial parameters that convey narrative. Third, through Lacan’s theory of ‘the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real’, the growth narrative of Namwoo is analyzed to show that this theory can appear as a method of narrative imagery. Through convergent reading of time and space, the sequential characteristics between story-time and discourse-time and Namwoo’s time are analyzed. The order of story-time and discourse-time creates plot time in a retrospective way. This is simply a narrative device to compose another plot by time modulation that is not made of an antecedent arrangement of past-present events. The narrative characteristics of duration and frequency and the fantastic space of memories are discussed. The fantasy world where Namwoo meets Mari is repeated overlapping, and the fantasy world continues to unfold in Namwoo’s gaze. A fantastic story with Marie, a surreal being, and the arrangement of space and time show their relationship well. In particular, the scene of re-entry into the world of fantasy shows the process of Namwoo’s inner division and at the same time, he finds the direction of his life. Finally, unlike previous studies, the significance of this paper is to analyze the narrative characteristics of the animation The Story of Mari based on time and spatial characteristics and to examine its meaning.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyse the storyline of Raymond Queneau's gamebook A Story of Your Own as a literary hypertext narrative, to define the peculiarities of its structural organization and to come up with a narrative scheme of the gamebook.
Abstract: The article describes the research of the narrative structure of gamebooks as an example of hypertext fiction. The aim of the research is to analyse the storyline of Raymond Queneau’s gamebook “A Story of Your Own” as a literary hypertext narrative, to define the peculiarities of its structural organization and to come up with a narrative scheme of the gamebook. The methodology of the research is based on the narrative analysis predicated by the invariant narrative scheme offered by William Labov and Joshua Waletzky. The research novelty lies in the fact that for the first time a narrative analysis of a book-game is carried out taking into account its narrative and hypertext characteristics and the hypernarrative structure of a bookgame is described and presented in the form of a scheme. The article dwells on the notions of the narrative, its prototype form and hypertext narrative as being a combination of hypertext and narrative. The author also defines the conception of the hypertext gamebook, follows its evolution. As a result of the analysis of Raymond Queneau’s minimalistic gamebook, the author identifies following isomorphic characteristics of a gamebook: nonlinearity and variation of the plot structure, fragmentarity and interactivity (the dialogue between the author, the reader and the text). The gamebook narrative structure utilizes all the narrative components (Abstract, Orientation, Complicating Action, Evaluation, Resolution, Coda), but there are some deviations from the scheme of the prototype linear narrative such as the combination of all narrative components in one, the substantial repetition of a component, the implementation of a component in a different textone, elimination, the presence of narrative polycomponents and their discontinuity, the implementation of a new component of Evaluation by the reader. All these deviations fulfil their definite functions inherent in the game-book. The gamebook structural abnormities are explained by the hypertext strategy of the narration and by interactivity. They create a new fiction space with numerous textual branches, make it possible to expand and to restrict the framework of the narration, boost the narrative dynamics and encourage readers’ activity. As a result of the research, the gamebook narrative scheme has been devised and described. This scheme includes potential authorial variations and it can be applied as the basis for the analysis of all kinds of hypertext narratives.
TL;DR: The change in genre structure is a noticeable point when the novel changes from a largescale narrative to a small-scale narrative, and the problem of genre structure was posed as a fundamental problem when studying the characteristics of the short novel form as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: The change in genre structure is a noticeable point when the novel changes from a largescale narrative to a small-scale narrative. Therefore, the problem of genre structure is posed as a fundamental problem when studying the characteristics of the short novel form. Within the scope of this article, applying new theoretical issues about the genre, combining analysis and comparison, from a poetic perspective, we will clarify the main points in the genre structure of the trend of short novels in contemporary Vietnamese literature. Innovations in the genre structure of short novels such as: replacing the historical-event structure with the historical-soul structure, and breaking the one-line structure… must be recognized and evaluated as an attempt to achieve the novel’s function with a limit on page numbers. From explaining the basis of formation, to analyzing and clarifying this feature in the structure of the short novel, the article contributes a famous democratic dialogue about a novel form that is not too unfamiliar but still poses issues that need to be studied in depth.
TL;DR: The authors used Gérard Genette's (1972/1980) narrative discourse theory in order to explore the temporal narrative strategies deployed in The Hunger Games (2008), the first novel in the popular series by the American writer Suzanne Collins.
Abstract: This article utilizes Gérard Genette’s (1972/1980) narrative discourse theory in order to explore the temporal narrative strategies deployed in The Hunger Games (2008), the first novel in the popular series by the American writer Suzanne Collins. Though Genette’s comprehensive theory includes such elements as time, mood, and voice, the main focus of the study will be narrative time, whose elements order, duration, and frequency and their subcategories are first defined and then applied to the analysis of this novel. Genette’s theory of narrative discourse has almost invariably been considered as a purely formal one, a highly systematic classification of terms designed to describe narrative structures, without focusing on the social and cultural factors. In contrast, the present analysis aims at exploring both the formal and the communicative components of Genette’s theory, with a view to bridging the gap between old classical and current postclassical narratology.
01 Jan 2023
TL;DR: The authors argue that character is structure and one without the other makes for a dissatisfying narrative, and argue that one without structure makes for an unsatisfactory narrative, while the other without structure leads to unsatisfactory characters.
Abstract: This book seeks to reshape the way that writers think about constructing their story, looking at the subject from the inside out. Often practitioners and theorists examine work through the separate lenses of character and/or structure and then bring them together. Within this book, authors Hughes and Wilkes argue that character is structure and one without the other makes for a dissatisfying narrative.
TL;DR: In this paper , a study of the narrative structure in the book The Reward and The good sequence written by Ibn Aldaih is presented, which sheds light on the structure of the blog.
Abstract: The study aims at shedding light on the narrative structure in the book titled ( The Reward and The good Sequence) Written by Ibn Aldaih, demonstrating the two sides of the histoire in items of the acts' system, the characters, the setting and the discourse which is embodied in techniques, chronicle and focalization, it also aims at clarifying the advantages of the narrative structure in the blog and shows that the traditional books are flexible to be a topic for the modern criticizing readings and that these readings are able to grasp the literary texts and understand its beauties and functions. The study depends on the narrative methods as it was sutible to the topic of the study and it also benefits from the modern criticizing methods. The important results of the study: there's a close relation between the blog and history. The blog produced a narrative stories which have roots in the depth of history and literature, this blog is distinguished with narrative richness and characterized by a big amount of knowledge which is included in the histoires showed frequently in the historical, political and social incident s,it also shows that the blog's histoires are barely devoid of anisochrony which moves the narration hastily and help to develop and to improve it.The blog includes the three patterns of focalization:The zero focalization,the internal and the external ones, it represents the dominance of the zero model of focalization,then the internal model on the histoires of the blog.
TL;DR: In this paper , the role of characters' inferred mental state along with linguistic information at the syntactic and semantic levels was explored for detecting prominent elements of the narrative structure by analyzing the roles of mental states and linguistic information.
Abstract: Narrative is a ubiquitous component of human communication. Understanding its structure plays a critical role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple comparative analyses to enhanced narrative retrieval, comprehension, or reasoning capabilities. Prior research in narratology has highlighted the importance of studying the links between cognitive and linguistic aspects of narratives for effective comprehension. This interdependence is related to the textual semantics and mental language in narratives, referring to characters' motivations, feelings or emotions, and beliefs. However, this interdependence is hardly explored for modeling narratives. In this work, we propose the task of automatically detecting prominent elements of the narrative structure by analyzing the role of characters' inferred mental state along with linguistic information at the syntactic and semantic levels. We introduce a STORIES dataset of short personal narratives containing manual annotations of key elements of narrative structure, specifically climax and resolution. To this end, we implement a computational model that leverages the protagonist's mental state information obtained from a pre-trained model trained on social commonsense knowledge and integrates their representations with contextual semantic embed-dings using a multi-feature fusion approach. Evaluating against prior zero-shot and supervised baselines, we find that our model is able to achieve significant improvements in the task of identifying climax and resolution.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue for the intrinsic storytelling value of Rowling's Harry Potter series through the scope of narratology, focusing on coherence within imaginary narrative worlds, and investigate the idea of microcosms, which not only generate the conflict that constitutes part of the reader's conscious or unconscious horizon of expectations but also shapes the ever-expanding geographical horizon which takes both characters and readers into different spheres of the narrative world the author has weaved.
Abstract: J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter heptalogy (1997–2007), which spans over more than four thousand pages, offers a wide array of narratological mechanisms and phenomena and, as such, constitutes a unique narrative object for the study of storytelling. Its interest also lies in its hybridity, as the series hovers between children’s literature and Young Adult literature. In this article, I give voice to the knowledge and know-how of published writers of fiction, sometimes departing from literary theory to enter the realm of creative writing theory in an interdisciplinary manner. My aim is to look at the story from the perspective of the creative mind, operating under the principle that, beyond symbolism, stylistics and literary effects, the mechanics of storytelling in middle-grade and young adult fiction have a lot to offer us, as researchers, and our students endeavouring to further their understanding of language and literature. Through a hands‑on narratological analysis, I argue for the intrinsic storytelling value of Rowling’s series through the scope of narratology, focusing on coherence within imaginary narrative worlds, and I investigate the idea of microcosms, which not only generate the conflict that constitutes part of the reader’s conscious or unconscious horizon of expectations but also shapes the ever-expanding geographical horizon which takes both characters and readers into different spheres of the narrative world the author has weaved.
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the unique charm of narrative techniques from three aspects: narrative perspective, narrative clues, and narrative imagery in Zhang Ling's novel, Golden Hill.
Abstract: New immigrant writers in North America have shown their unique artistic charm in both the expression of themes and the use of narrative strategies. Starting from the unique narrative strategy of new immigrant writers in North America, this study takes Zhang Ling’s novel, Golden Hill, as an example, and explores the unique charm of narrative techniques from three aspects: narrative perspective, narrative clues, and narrative imagery. The transformation of multiple narrative perspectives in Zhang Ling’s novels further expands the narrative perspective, skillfully blending the span of time and space; The double-line narrative structure of time and space clarifies the narrative threads, expands the capacity of the novel, and contains the author’s understanding of the world, life and art. The rich narrative imagery embodies the spirit of the work, and the narrative function can also loosen the context of the text and run through the narrative structure. Through the analysis of the narrative strategy of Golden Hill, the aesthetic characteristics of narrative strategy of North American newcomer literature are further displayed.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss the narrative structure contained in the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil by Jean Webster published by Takween publishing in 2018.
Abstract: The narrative structure is always present in the story, whether consciously or unconsciously the story contains a narrative structure. This study discusses the narrative structure contained in the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil by Jean Webster. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The main source used in this research is the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil by Jean Webster published by Takween publishing in 2018. While the secondary sources are books and articles related to Gerrad Genette's narratology. The data analysis technique begins with classifying and determining the narrative structure in the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil . Then the researcher collected information related to the narrative structure expressed by Gerard Genette, then made conclusions regarding the results of the analysis of the narrative structure by Gerard Genette. The results of this study are: 1) the narrative order contained in the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil is an acronym, 2) the duration of the narrative contained in the novel Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil there are 3 forms, namely pause, scene, and summary, 3) Frequency in Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil is a type of single representation and anaphoric representation, 4) the Moodin Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil 's novel uses internal focalization and zero focalization, 5) and the narrator's narration used in Shahib adz Dzilli ath Thawil uses heterodiegetic and homodiegetic. This research continues previous research to develop research on narrative structure based on Gerard Genette's perspective. Received: 18 February 2023 Accepted: 15 March 2023 Published: 23 May 2023
TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared the components and patterns of personal narratives in Thai children aged 4-6 years old and found that narratives vary not only with age but also in content and structure across cultures.
Abstract: Background: Understanding children’s narratives is crucial as it represents language capacity in a naturalistic context and also relates to children’s academic success. However, studies showed that narratives vary not only with age but also in content and structure across cultures. Objectives: To study and compare components and patterns of personal narratives in Thai children aged 4-6 years old. Also, to find narrative structure differences between genders. Materials and methods: Stories of past experiences were elicited from 86 participants aged 4-6 years old. The longest narratives from each participant were analyzed in terms of both narrative components and patterns by using high-point analysis. Comparisons were then drawn for the proportions and differences in narrative structure between age groups and between genders. Results: For narrative components, Thai children told complicating action most frequently. With age, the use of resolution increased significantly from 4-6 years old. For narrative patterns, chronological patterns were found commonly at age 4. Moreover, the incidence of classic patterns rose significantly between the ages of 4 and 6 and reached the highest proportion in usage at ages 5 and 6. No gender difference was found in the narrative structure. Conclusion: Thai children’s narrative structure was presented in this study. The abilities to range events in sequence and resolve the high-point of narratives were found more commonly with their increasing age.
TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of content structure types and background music tempos of short videos on potential tourists' mental simulation and resort brand attitude via two studies was investigated. And the results showed that potential tourists induce stronger mental simulation when the structure of the resort short video is narrative, especially when the background music of narrative short videos is slow.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Short videos have gradually become a new channel for resorts to promote their brands on social media. This study aims to determine the effect of content structure types and background music tempos of short videos on potential tourists’ mental simulation and resort brand attitude via two studies. Study 1 used a between-group one-way (short video content structure type: narrative vs. non-narrative) experiment to test the psychological mechanism of the short video content structure type on potential tourists’ resort brand attitude through mental simulation. Study 2 was a 2 (short video content structure type: narrative vs. non-narrative) × 2 (background music tempo: fast vs. slow) between-group experiment to test the impact of short video content structure and background music. The results show that potential tourists induce stronger mental simulation and higher resort brand attitude when the structure of the resort short video is narrative. Especially when the background music of narrative short videos is slow, the effect is greater. This study discusses the theoretical and practical implications of this effect for the hospitality industry.
TL;DR: This article argued that the journalists arrange the sequences of events in feature writing production to meet the audience's need for story coherence, based on the empirical evidence in narrative communication, and added narrative paradigm theory on the basis of qualitatively and quantitatively research by other scholars and also advanced the general understanding of narrative structures.
Abstract: Based on the empirical evidence in narrative communication, this article argues that the journalists arrange the sequences of events in feature writings production to meet the audience's need for story coherence. Taken as a miniature of exemplary journalistic practice in feature writings, the 2021 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles in Feature Writing was examined, in order to answer how narrative communication theory operates. This paper applies Labov and Waletzky’s narrative model and Bell’s improved one, which is suitable for the analysis of news texts, and identifies the coherent expression in samples was manifest in temporal, causal, motivational, and affective orders. The entire narrative structure and the narrative cycle structure were presented within a temporal framework, and emotional content was structured within the communicative framework (Duncan 13:589–603, 2012). Interpretations are provided by interrupting the narrative to ensure rigorous logic, while the supporting evidence is avoided to increase the audience’s immersion. This paper adds narrative paradigm theory on the basis of qualitatively and quantitatively research by other scholars and also advances the general understanding of narrative structures.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the basic structure that builds the narrative of ten of the folklores in Papua using the genre approach within the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).
Abstract: ABSTRACT. This paper aims to examine the basic structure that builds the narrative of ten of the folklores in Papua using the genre approach within the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The study focuses on the presence of the rhetorical moves in each of the story, which is hoped to show the stories’ main communicative purposes as well as their schematic structures. The study uses descriptive-qualitative approach, which analyses the data interpretatively by applying Swales’ (1990) genre theory, the Move-Structure theory and combining it with the narrative elements from Labov’s (1972) Narrative Structure theory. The findings indicate all ten stories share similar structures in general despite being written by different authors—each of them has the moves orientation, complications, resolution, and coda. However, in the move realization, each story has different steps and/or step cycles. These findings indicate that the ten stories share the same communicative purpose: giving information about how some things come to be, and that they belong to the same genre. It is hoped that this research adds to the literature of genre analysis in the perspective of linguistics as well as enriches the analysis of folk literature in Indonesia.
01 Jun 2023
TL;DR: In this paper , a qualitative content analysis and narratology methodologies were used to analyze the narrative structure inherent in the film, The Woman King (2022, 02:14:49).
Abstract: This work was concerned with narratology in Prince-Bythewood’s (2022, 02:14:49) film, The Woman King. It was specifically set to analyse the narrative structure inherent in the film. In doing this, the researchers formulated four research objectives to guide the narrative analysis of the film. The objectives were to: describe how the plot is structured to enhance the film narrative; explain how the director established dramatic elements such as setting, conflict, and denouement in enhancing the film narrative; critically examine the metaphorical and literary themes that help to enhance the film narrative; and to discuss how the director’s use of cinematography enhance the film narrative. The theoretical underpinning of the Narrative Theory provided explications to the narratological exegesis attempted in the study. The study, using the qualitative content analysis and narratology methodologies, described and critically analysed Prince-Bythewood’s (2022, 02:14:49) deployment of narratives and narrative structures in the story (plot) and discourse from settings; dramatic twists; themes (metaphorical and literary); dramatic conflict/climax; denouement; and other cinematographic elements such as visual effects; stunts; lighting and lighting effect; non-linear editing; sound and sound effect; and languages of dramatic dialogue.