scholarly journals Why do we accept a narrative discourse ascribed to a “third-person narrator” as true? The classical, and a cognitive approach

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (203) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erzsébet Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Narrative Comprehension ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Free Representation ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Literary Narrative

AbstractThe aim of the present paper is to discuss the question of why readers accept a literary narrative discourse attributed traditionally to an “omniscient third-person narrator” unconditionally as true. I will advocate two theses. First, that this characteristic of narrative comprehension is a consequence of a grammatical feature of the narrative discourse, namely, the absence of the “narrating-I.” This format mimics what Cosmides and Tooby label as scope-free representation, i.e., a representation that is not bound by scope-operators and thus treated by a cognitive architecture as architecturally true. Second, narrative discourse ascribed traditionally to a third person narrator should be understood as the linguistic representation of the true states of affairs of a narrative world.

scholarly journals ARCog: An Aerial Robotics Cognitive Architecture

Robotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena F. Pinto ◽  
Leonardo M. Honório ◽  
Andre L. M. Marcato ◽  
Mario A. R. Dantas ◽  
Aurelio G. Melo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Aerial Robotics ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Vehicle Architecture ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
High Level

SUMMARY Efficient algorithm integration is a key issue in aerial robotics. However, only a few integration solutions rely on a cognitive approach. Cognitive approaches break down complex problems into independent units that may deal with progressively lower-level data interfaces, all the way down to sensors and actuators. A cognitive architecture defines information flow among units to produce emergent intelligent behavior. Despite the improvements in autonomous decision-making, several key issues remain open. One of these issues is the selection, coordination, and decision-making related to the several specialized tasks required for fulfilling mission objectives. This work addresses decision-making for the cognitive unmanned-aerial-vehicle architecture coined as ARCog. The proposed architecture lays the groundwork for the development of a software platform aligned with the requirements of the state-of-the-art technology in the field. The system is designed to provide high-level decision-making. Experiments prove that ARCog works correctly in its target scenario.

A cognitive approach to L2 Russian and Polish: a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-373
Author(s):  
Vladimir Zherebov ◽  
Ewa Schalley
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Reflexive Pronouns ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
Conceptual Integration Theory

Abstract In this paper we propose a new methodology for teaching third person possessive pronouns in Russian and Polish (его/её/их Russian jego, jej, ich Polish) as opposed to the reflexive pronouns свой (Russian) swój (Polish), which always pose significant problems for students learning these languages. In this paper we maintain that the reason for the problem at hand is cognitive in nature: if such a distinction is not present in the mother tongue of the students, they fail to correctly conceptualize the existing difference in the target languages and consequently use the pronouns in question incorrectly. This is based on lack of correct perception rather than lack of theoretical knowledge. The methodology we suggest is based on the practical application of the leading cognitive theories, in particular the Conceptual Integration theory of Fauconnier and Turner.

FRACTALITY IN LITERARY NARRATIVE

Fractals ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 351-363
Author(s):  
J. B. RAMÍREZ-MALO ◽  
M. DOMÍNGUEZ ◽  
F. BELLIDO
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Correlation Dimension ◽  
Discrete Dynamical System ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Embedding Problem ◽  
Nonlinear Characteristic ◽  
Generator System ◽  
Formal Expression ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Literary Narrative

In the context of current Narratology, a novel can be regarded as an information generator system. This information can be symbolically and numerically codified and, subsequently, studied by nonlinear characteristic geometrical methods. Using this approach, geometric structures underlying the narrative discourse become evident. In this work, using a particular novel as our experimental data source, a formal expression for a discrete dynamical system is deduced, which generates a representative orbit of the narrative discourse evolution. The fractal dimension of this orbit is calculated from the correlation dimension and its deterministic character is unambiguously proved by solving the associated embedding problem. Finally, we describe the general features that a novel must satisfy in order to apply the proposed procedure.

scholarly journals “I can tell the difference between fiction and reality”

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Browse ◽  
Mari Hatavara
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Authorial Intention ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Theresa May

Abstract This article approaches fictionality as a set of semiotic strategies prototypically associated with fictional forms of storytelling (Hatavara & Mildorf, 2017b). Whilst these strategies are strongly associated with fiction, they might also be used in non-fictional and ontologically ambivalent contexts to create ‘cross-fictional’ rhetorical effects. We focus on the representation of thought and consciousness. Using the concept of ‘mind style’ (Fowler, 1977, 1996; Leech & Short, 1981; Semino, 2007), we investigate the linguistic representation of the internal monologue of British Prime Minister, Theresa May, in a satirical newspaper article. The stylistic analysis of the PM’s mind style facilitates an account of the elaborate and nuanced mixing of May and the author’s ideological perspectives throughout the piece. We argue that this cross-fictional, stylistic approach better accounts for the satirical effects of fictionality in the text than those placing a premium on authorial intention and the invented nature of the narrative discourse.

Communicants’ Personal World in the Verbal Texture of the Interpreted Discourse

10.12737/4296 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Бойко ◽  
Galina Boyko
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Inner World

The paper is devoted to the linguistic representation of the communicants’ individual inner world. German narrative discourse is viewed as the center of different evaluative cognitive worlds, which create a poliphony of points of view and evaluative attitudes. The author gives examples of verbal reflection of the axiological orientations change predetermined by sociocultural causes.

scholarly journals Dos estructuras simbólicas del mito de la Quintrala: la bruja y la femme fatale

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Jasmin Belmar Shagulian
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Historical Essay ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Literary Narrative

  Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer, best known as Quintrala, is a historical figure of the Chilean Colonial period. Within Chilean culture, she became a myth that developed into a literary character variously portraited as a witch, a murderer, and a parricide. To this day, these remain the portraits that have been reproduced in the literary narrative about the character. In this work I will analyse the symbolic structures of the witch and the femme fatale, which are essential and reiterative in the construction of the narrative discourse about this literary character. For this purpose, I have chosen the figurative structuralism that views a literary text as a sermo mythicus, that is to say, as a myth in which symbolic structures are a part of the mythical discourse advocated by this theory; this kind of discourse is likewise a fundamental and inherent component of the myth of Quintrala that has not been studied as such. This work aims to examine these symbolic structures embedded in the myth of La Quintrala by analysing and comparing Gustavo Frías’ latest novels, Tres nombres para Catalina: Catrala (2001) and Tres nombres para Catalina: la doña de Campofrío (2003), the work of Magdalena Petit, La Quintrala (2009), that of Mercedes Valdivieso, Maldita yo entre las mujeres (1991), as well as the historical essay Los Lisperguer y la Quintrala by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna ([1877] 1944) in order to establish the existence through time of a rewriting and a transfiguration of the symbolic structures in these literary works.

scholarly journals Creating Communicative Space and Textual Reality via Emotiogenic Means in Fictional Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Bezrukov ◽  
◽  
Oksana Bohovyk
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
Emotional Knowledge ◽  
Communicative Space

The article focuses on the strategies of reconstructing communicative space between the author and reader as well as forecasting the emotional impact on the reader through transforming textual reality. The emotiogenic characteristics of fictional discourse provide the emotional perception of literary texts since emotions are central to the experience of literary narrative fiction. Such a perception is made possible by the identification, comprehension, and interpretation of the emotionally significant textual components of different types. The authors of the article have classified them as the following: graphical and visual, punctuation, and semantic-stylistic ones. These means, found in the postmodern novels by Salman Rushdie, Tahereh Mafi, Marina Lewycka, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alexandar Hemon, and Stephen King, have been analysed to explicate the character of the phenomenon of emotiogenic fictional narratives. The emotiogenic means in the selected novels are exploited by the writers of different ethnic affiliations that can be resulted from their multicultural experience. The superimposition of some means is explained by their semantic relationship. The article tests a hypothesis that the cognitive architecture of the emotiogenic means is determined by an emotional situation reflected in a literary text that appears to be a special code through which readers interpret their emotional and evaluative meanings. The indicators of the text’s emotionality occur to be signs of the textual representation of emotional knowledge. This study contributes to the investigation of the emotiogenic means of creating communicative space which are considered those discursive expressive elements that affect the perception of textual reality.

Linguistic Representation of the Concept of Sun in the Linguoculture of the Peoples of the North (Based on the Yakut and Yukaghir Languages)

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Margarita P. Lukina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Heavenly Body ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Times

The object of the research is the concept of the sun: in the Yakut language - kyn, in the tundra Yukagir language - yerpeye and in the forest Yukaghir language - yeloodye. The article deals with lexical representatives and stable phrases; the motivating, conceptual, figurative features and derivational paradigms of the studied concept are established; applied etymological analysis of words, cognitive approach and conceptual methods of concept research. The concept of the sun is presented in different ways in the linguistic picture of the world of peoples. The description and explanation of the peculiarities of the concept of the sun in the national linguistic picture of the world of the Sakha and Yukaghir people in a comparative-comparative plan seems relevant for conceptual linguistics. As a result of the study, only positive signs of the concept of the sun were noted in both linguocultures. The scope of the linguistic representation of the concept of kyn in the Yakut language is diverse, while the content level is characterized by different options. A large number of derivative words with the lexeme kyn in the Yakut language indicate the cultural significance of this concept. Since ancient times, the Sakha people and the Yukaghirs had a cult of the main heavenly body of the sun, which continues to the present day. The Sakha and Yukaghir people celebrate the Ysyakh and Shahadyibe holidays on the summer solstice, marking the beginning of a new annual cycle. During the holiday, abundance, peace, harmony and love are demonstrated to the main deity, the sun, thereby asking the sun for well-being for the coming year. Thus, the sun is a key concept for these northern peoples. Keywords: linguoculture, concept sun, concept kyn, concept yerpeye/yeloodye, Yakut language, Yukaghir language, concept-forming lexeme

Necessarily a narrator or narrator if necessary: A short note on a long subject words

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Margolin
Keyword(s):  
General Model ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Category Instance ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
Communicative Role

AbstractFor (at least) literary narratives I propose to understand “narrator” as follows: An inner-textual speech position from which the current narrative discourse as a whole originates, and from which references to the entities, actions and events that this discourse is about are being made. Through a dual process of metonymic transfer and anthropomorphisation the term “narrator” is then employed to designate a presumed occupant of this position, the hypothesized producer of the current discourse. A narrator is a linguistically indicated, textually projected and readerly identified position whose occupant needs to be thought of primarily in terms of a communicative role, distinct from any actualworld flesh-and-blood (or computer) producer of the text. The paper describes in brief eight different kinds of general considerations (linguistic, philosophical, methodological and general literary-theoretical) which can motivate a narratologist to judge the narrator category/instance as an indispensable or as a merely optional element of his general model of literary narrative. The article concludes with two recent theoretical moves which tend to circumvent the need for such a choice by either re-drawing the narratologist's domain of objects or by redefining the status of the narrator category itself.

scholarly journals The Discursive Mind Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Stemplewska-Żakowicz ◽  
Bartosz Zalewski ◽  
Hubert Suszek ◽  
Dorota Kobylińska ◽  
Bartosz Szymczyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Separate Representation ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Theories Of Mind ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThe paper proposes the model of discursive mind and describes the cognitive architecture of the dialogically structured mind. The model draws on Hermans’ (1999) theory of the dialogical self (DS) and Wertsch’s (1991) vision of mind as a “tool kit” with socio-cultural instruments, and also on the socio-cognitive approach to personality in experimental psychology. An I-position is understood here as an active totality of experience, shaped in a particular social context and represented in a separate representation module. Th ere are many modules in the mind because in the course of socialization, the individual comes across many different social contexts. Th e described model and its preliminary empirical verification not only gives support to the DS theory, but can also be a leverage of its contribution to general theories of mind stemming from other theoretical traditions

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