Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

a historical novel is a form of story-like narrative which is a combination of story and history. accordingly, we cannot easily comment whether, within this framework, it is the history that isbeing focused on by the author—as all the story’s elements are employed in the service of the historian—or history simplyplays an incidental role at the back stage of the story. the best exampleof the mix...

the kalila & dimna is considered as one of the beautiful collections of stories written in the field of philosophy and politics. in other words, animals used in this book as symbols have incurred much impact and at the same time could keep the actual intentions of the author hidden. one of the fables in this book is about a lion and jackals that show how their hostilities turn into friendship. ...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...

one of the greatest scholars related to islamic-arabic culture is ibn-tufail whose authority in the field of philosophy of science and medicine and intellectual activities is worthy of praise .however, none of his works remained except his odes in medicine and hayy-ibn-yaghzan dissertation. the latter is the most important of his works ,containing his deep philosophical thoughts and applying fa...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of Visual Storytelling Warehouse, an interactive XML-based automatic cartoonstyle visual storytelling system to generate new stories based on written story structures and user’s requirements. The Warehouse will consist of the visual and no-visual elements including characters, events, background images, and story plots. Each of these elements will be asso...

This paper describes a framework for building story traces (compact global views of a narrative) and story projections (selections of key story elements) and their applications in digital storytelling. Word and sense properties are extracted using the WordNet lexical database enhanced with Prolog inference rules and a number of lexical transformations. Inference rules are based on navigation in...