Ziv’s Favorite Story 1 A Syndicated Show in a Network World: Frederic Ziv’s Favorite Story

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Narrative Intelligence

People are narrative animals. As children, our caretakers immerse us in stories: fairy tales, made-up stories, favorite stories, "Read me a story!" Even when barely verbal, we begin to tell our own proto-stories. "Phoebe! Pizza! Phoebe! Pizza!" was the excited story of a 2-year-old friend Addie when one of us happened to arrive simultaneously with the pizza delivery man. This story means, appro...

Why Do Little Kids Ask to Hear the Same Story Over and Over?

One way people learn new words is through reading books and stories. Little kids love hearing their favorite stories over and over and are also very good at learning new words. We wondered if reading the same stories could be helping preschool kids learn new words. Our research tested if it was better to read the same stories over and over or to read a few different stories. Here, we tell you a...

Machine translation for litterature: a pilot study (Traduction automatisée d'une oeuvre littéraire: une étude pilote) [in French]

Current machine translation (MT ) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) allows to obtain high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is such a pipeline (MT+PE) usable to translate a literary work (fiction, short story) ? This paper tries to bring a preliminary answer to this question. A short story by American writer Richard Powers, still not availabl...

The Study of “the World as an Image” in the Narrative of “The story of Siavash” Using Genette’s Theory

Narrative process and its narrative mechanisms help the reader make sense of the way events happen in a story. Using repeating images in the text of a story is a method of narrative development.  In Shahnameh, dealing with the world and images it gives rise to is one of the central motives of the text. The narrator in different parts of the poem seems captivated by the image of the world and th...