In the problematic exploration of the narrative potential of videogames, one of the clearest aspects that bridge stories and games is space. This paper examines the different devices that videogames have used to incorporate stories through spatial design and what is known as environmental storytelling, focusing on the design elements that make the story directly relevant to gameplay beyond worl...

The traditional view is that now a pure indexical, denoting the utterance time. Yet, despite its initial appeal, has faced criticism. A range of data reveal allows for discourse-bound (i.e., anaphoric) uses, and can occur felicitously with past tense. reaction to this typically been treat as akin true demonstrative, selecting prominent time supplied by non-linguistic context or prior discourse....

Abstract This paper engages with the notion of shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentially indifferent set (ideologically constructed) minimal pairs that is used in order to mark and perform social differentiation. We argue shibboleth be considered interpretive (metapragmatic) phenomenon operates on different sociolinguistic scales, notably discursive scale (ideologies communicatio...

Search engine bias has been seriously noticed in recent years. Several pioneering studies have reported that bias perceivably exists even with respect to the URLs in the search results. On the other hand, the potential bias with respect to the content of the search results has not been comprehensively studied. In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional approach to assess both the indexical bia...

The effect of problem format on problem solving strategy selection is investigated within the early algebra domain of functional thinking. Functional Thinking is a type of algebraic reasoning appropriate for elementary students, in which a relationship exists between two sets of values. Three function table problems were given to students in grades two through six (N=232) in three different pro...

The epsilon calculus contains terms of the form ‘ xFx’ for every predicate in the language. This means that it includes what I shall call ‘empty’ terms (when there are no F s) and also what I shall call ‘indexical’ terms (when there is more than one F ). These particular terms give the epsilon calculus a very distinctive character in comparison with the standard predicate calculus. For instance...

smaller vocal tract larger vocal tract Pitch and /s/ variation are not fundamentally and directly linked to gender or sex, but have a complex range of indexical links which can be called upon to perform a variety of affects and character types. Effect of sex on variation is indirect and mediated by affects, stances, persona styles, character types (Ochs 1992; Eckert 1989, 2008, 2014; Eckert & M...