Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

This paper presents a literature research into generating stories in natural language based on events created by the Virtual Storyteller, a multi-agent system that simulates actors to create a story. The goal was to come up with recommendations for the system design of an NLG system that can create these stories. This system will be based on an existing subsystem of the Virtual Storyteller call...

The article focuses on the narrative analysis of novel "The Painter" by T. Shevchenko in order to trace how strategy text contributes actualization writer's self-alienation phenomenon from his own colonized "I". is based system proposed Gerard Genette: types narration (mimesis and diegesis) are defined, focalized, who tells story (types narrators), time expressed story, words thoughts (discours...

Abstract In his paper on Lysias, Dionysius of Halicarnassus characterizes the effect Lysias’ enargeia as power through which listener “seems to see things shown and be almost in company characters whom orator introduces”. The capacity give audience a sense being present at narrated scene, vividly imagining people, places, actions, is one most powerful instruments persuasive toolbox. ‘sense pres...

Conspiracies frustrate contemporaries, historiographers, and historians. This article explores roles, focalization, confession in three conspiracies related to Italy, from the 6th, 4th, 9th centuries respectively. The protagonists include Boethius, Silvanus, Theodulf of Orléans. main contribution is a philological historiographical re-evaluation Theodulf’s role revolt Bernard Italy against Loui...

This work shows a simple way of producing fixed bed microreactors or packed microcolumns by using electrodynamic focusing. Based on previous results that showed fibre focalization on orifices is possible, we explored this technique to electrospun fibres inside microchannels. Different polymeric nanofibres either neat or composite, i.e. fibres containing particles can be deposited without meanin...