This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

Intelligent storytelling systems either formalize specific narrative structures proposed by narratologists (such as Propp and Bremond), or are founded on formal representations from artificial intelligence (such as plan structures from classical planning). This disparity in underlying knowledge representations leads to a lack of common evaluation metrics across story generation systems, particu...

Abstract Geography occupies a central role in The Murderer’s Ape (2014/2017), Swedish children’s novel by Jakob Wegelius. Drawing on theories of critical literary geography, the article is an analysis novel’s geography and exploration how narrative shapes produces place space. shows that both represents challenges colonial power structures through production Methodologically, three complementar...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

The current study investigated how computer games and maps compare as preparation for readers to comprehend and retain spatial relations in text narratives. Readers create situation models of five dimensions: spatial, temporal, causal, goal, and protagonist (Zwaan, Langston, & Graesser 1995). Of these five, readers mentally model the spatial dimension least well (Rinck, 2005). Studying maps bef...

The aim of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of semi-completed concept map instruction in reading comprehension of students who are deaf. An intervention study based on ABA research design took place, which involved scaffolding instruction on the use of concept maps in the reading comprehension of narrative texts. A 10-year-old deaf student born to deaf parents participated in our stud...

INTRODUCTION Intermittent video supplied by a webcam affords near-real-time images that can approximate the dynamic scenes of full-motion video. As map supplements, webcam images offer readily interpreted onthe-spot reports of traffic flow, crowdedness, cloudiness, scenic beauty (or ugliness), and other directly observable aspects of the physical and human landscapes. And as easily interpreted ...