the widely shocking attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon on september 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from america's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for bush administration to pursue g. h. w. bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

Narrative peaks are points at which the viewer perceives a spike in the level of dramatic tension within the narrative flow of a video. This paper reports on four approaches to narrative peak detection in television documentaries that were developed by a joint team consisting of members from Delft University of Technology and the University of Twente within the framework of the VideoCLEF 2009 A...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

There is always a distance between the narrator and story. Narrative Distance can be of varying degrees. The objective current study to explore how narrative discourse employed by Khaled Hosseini in novel “The Kite Runner”. Genette’s (1980) model provides theoretical framework for research as attempts analyze narrated speech, transposed speech reported apply narration Runner.

This paper is an analysis of narratives in British English conversation. It shows that prosody and gestures made by the speaker align to the pragmatic structure of narratives and are especially used to distinguish the climax, e.g. the point of the narrative. Indeed I will show that the climax is most of the time uttered with a slower speech rate and higher voice intensity than the rest of the n...

This article examines a narrative told by Quico, a five-year-old Gypsy child, in a Spanish kindergarten classroom. The guiding framework stems from ethnopoetics and performance-oriented narrative analysis. First, a stanza analysis of the narrative is presented. Structurally the narrative can be described as topic associative in the sense discussed by SarahMichaels (1981, 1991). The text is orga...

Objective Clinical assessment of auditory attention in patients with disorders of consciousness is often limited by motor impairment. Here, we employ intersubject correlations among electroencephalography responses to naturalistic speech in order to assay auditory attention among patients and healthy controls. Methods Electroencephalographic data were recorded from 20 subjects with disorders ...