Battle of narratives: Interaction between narratives and counter-narratives in megaprojects

Identity Construction in Three AbaGusii Bewitchment Narratives

The stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and relationship to reality. In essence, in narratives, individuals construct the self and denote personal identities. The available narrative identity studies have largely ignored the language employed by the bewitched while narrating their ex...

Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play

Summarizing Narratives

Most research on na r ra t i ve tex t summarisation has been conducted w i t h i n the paradigm of experimental psychology. But recent language processing research i n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e suggests that the predominant theory of tex t summarisation requi res fu r the r examinat ion. Seemingly minor s t r u c t u r a l mod i f i ca t ions of a s tory can reau l t in a i g ...

Visualizing Narratives

A narrative is an ordered sequence of connected events, usually involving multiple participants. Most existing visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between characters in the narrative. These techniques make a number of simplifying assumptions about the narrative structure, however. T...

Combining Narratives

A theory is elaboration tolerant to the extent that new information can be incorporated with only simple changes. The simplest change is conjoining new information, and only conjunctive changes are considered in this paper. In general adding information to a theory should often change, rather than just enlarge, its consequences, and this requires that some of the reasoning be non-monotonic. Our...