Beyond Iconicity: Ostension in Kamsa Mythic Narrative

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Beyond Emergence: From Emergent to Guided Narrative

In this paper we explore an alternative approach to narrative generation in a pedagogical context where the story emerges from the interactions between the characters of a story in a 3D environment. Relying on previous work where the autonomy of characters was explored to generate emergent narratives, in this paper we present the emergent episode, a structure that can be used to organize the st...

Interactive Drama on Computer: Beyond Linear Narrative

This study aims to design a new kind of interactive drama, where the user interacts in depth with the course of the narrative, while the dramatic intensity is retained. Based on various theoretical sources on narrative and drama, a model is put forward. This model is used to build a computer system of interactive drama.

Phonological iconicity

The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature of non-arbitrary relations between linguistic sounds and semantics. This review aims at illustrating the amount of findings obtained so far and to organize and evaluate different lines of research dedicated to the is...

Is ostension any more than attention?

According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are sensitive to particular ostensive cues that communicate to them that they are being addressed and that they can expect to learn referential information. We demonstrate that 6-month-old infants follow others' gaze direction in situations that are highly attention-grabbing. This occurs irrespective of whether these situations include communicative...