I-Narration: Revealing Narrator’s Selfhood

Gottingen Speakers and Narrators

The paper investigates a seeming paradox. Formal theories of meaning standardly assume that sentencesin real communication or in fictionare evaluated relative to utterance contexts. Therefore, such theories lead us to expect that texts in fiction always refer to speakers, which come as part of these utterance contexts. Intuition, on the contrary, tells us that many stories do not create the imp...

Narration, Visualization and Mind

The paper is analyzing how people in late modern society characterized by detraditionalization, use moving images as a cultural resource for the construction of meaningful subjective world views. As a theoretical concept with several dimensions, “sacralization of the self” (Woodhead & Heelas 2000: 344), is related to media theory. With a critical focus on ‘the self’, as a core aspect in contemp...

IVAN - Intelligent Interactive Virtual Agent Narrators

Multimodal user interfaces are becoming more and more important in humann machine communication. Essential representatives of such interfaces are virtual agents that aim to act like humans in the way they employ gestures, facial expression, posture and prosody to convey their emotions in face-to-face communication. Furthermore, if we employ a presentation team [1] to convey facts, the performan...

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

dos and don'ts of the narration of the rahian-e noor narrators

with the aims of protecting and exploiting the effects and values of imposed war and preventing the destruction and distorting them, the foundation for the preservation and publication of sacred defense works and values was established on february 26, 1991 by a command of the supreme leader and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. then, the central headquarters of the rahian-e noor was c...