scholarly journals Extending the embodied semiotic square: A cultural-semantic analysis of “Follow your Arrow”

Semiotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (236-237) ◽  
pp. 275-295
Author(s):  
Daniel Candel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Field ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Cognitive Literary Theory ◽  
Authorial Voice

AbstractPelkey’s anchoring of the semiotic square in embodiment is excellent news for cognitive literary theory, a dynamic field still in search of itself. However, his validation of the square, though theoretically unexceptionable, suffers in the execution, for his interpretation of the country song “Follow your Arrow” is less successful. The present article benefits from Pelkey’s validation as it organizes a tool of cultural-semantic analysis (CS-tool) as a ‘deviant’ semiotic square. The article then shows how this particular semiotic square allows us to analyze the song in terms which build on Pelkey’s analysis, but also arrive at more satisfying results. Where Pelkey sees liberation in the song and the square, the tool uncovers manipulation in the former and closure in the latter. The article then assesses the complementarity of and differences between the two squares: Pelkey works on a local sentence-level through direct implicature, thus following the narrative/authorial voice of the poem. The CS-tool starts from a position of higher abstraction requiring a less defined, but still sufficient and more wide-ranging, three-step implicature. This allows the tool to step back from the song’s authorial voice and uncover its manipulations. The article closes by discussing the deviant features of the present square.

Towards a cognitive stylistics of the absurd: Joanna Gavins’ Reading the Absurd (2013)

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Olivier Couder
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Cognitive Literary Theory

Joanna Gavins’ recently published Reading the Absurd (2013) represents a new step in the research into the literary absurd as it introduces cognitive stylistics as an instrument to clarify its workings. This review article focuses on some of the innovative additions offered by Gavins’ book, specifically, the importance it attributes to the reader and his or her response to absurdist literature. In the wake of earlier studies of the absurd, the article identifies incongruity as a key feature of the absurd. Positing that a cognitive approach to incongruity is much needed in this context, the article then considers how cognitive literary theory can add to our knowledge and understanding of absurdist literature.

Towards a Semantic-Based Approach for Affect and Metaphor Detection

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
John Barnden
Keyword(s):  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Affect Detection ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Initial Exploration

Affect detection from open-ended virtual improvisational contexts is a challenging task. To achieve this research goal, the authors developed an intelligent agent which was able to engage in virtual improvisation and perform sentence-level affect detection from user inputs. This affect detection development was efficient for the improvisational inputs with strong emotional indicators. However, it can also be fooled by the diversity of emotional expressions such as expressions with weak or no affect indicators or metaphorical affective inputs. Moreover, since the improvisation often involves multi-party conversations with several threads of discussions happening simultaneously, the previous development was unable to identify the different discussion contexts and the most intended audiences to inform affect detection. Therefore, in this paper, the authors employ latent semantic analysis to find the underlying semantic structures of the emotional expressions and identify topic themes and target audiences especially for those inputs without strong affect indicators to improve affect detection performance. They also discuss how such semantic interpretation of dialog contexts is used to identify metaphorical phenomena. Initial exploration on affect detection from gestures is also discussed to interpret users’ experience of using the system and provide an extra channel to detect affect embedded in the virtual improvisation. Their work contributes to the journal themes on affect sensing from text, semantic-based dialogue processing and emotional gesture recognition.

scholarly journals Theory-Inspired Rather than Theory-Based Criticism: Towards a Semeiocritical Method for the Interpretation of Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Khaled Besbes
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
The World

AbstractThe present article is written almost a decade and a half after the reticent announcement of the death of literary theory by a number of scholars around the world. But during all these years, the humanities have not managed to drive Theory out of the seminar rooms of English departments, nor have the anti-theory proponents managed to remove it from the syllabi of English studies or even from the shelves of specialized libraries. After all these years, English studies academicians find themselves still doing Theory: holding conferences on how to conduct literary studies, organizing debates on how to launch new approaches that could possibly replace critical theories, and encouraging research into less-theorized methods of literary interpretation that could respond to the ineluctable need for a method in studying literature. For good or ill, whether we admit it or not, the echoes of literary theories continue to linger behind the scenes of all debates about literature and literary studies. The question is therefore not how to bring those echoes to silence, but rather how to find a way out of the post-theory deadlock by proposing what I have chosen to name the semeiocritical method as a theory-inspired, rather than theory-based approach to literature. The present article seeks to answer two questions: (1) how can we benefit from the lessons of literary theory without systematically doing theory or being methodically loyal to theories? and (2) how can we maximize the effects of literary interpretation in such a way as to cover as many aspects as possible of the signifying processes in the literary text while maintaining interpretive consistency?

Text-to-Text Similarity of Sentences

2012 ◽  
pp. 110-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasile Rus ◽  
Mihai Lintean ◽  
Arthur C. Graesser ◽  
Danielle S. McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring System ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Word Similarity ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Sentence Level

Assessing the semantic similarity between two texts is a central task in many applications, including summarization, intelligent tutoring systems, and software testing. Similarity of texts is typically explored at the level of word, sentence, paragraph, and document. The similarity can be defined quantitatively (e.g. in the form of a normalized value between 0 and 1) and qualitatively in the form of semantic relations such as elaboration, entailment, or paraphrase. In this chapter, we focus first on measuring quantitatively and then on detecting qualitatively sentence-level text-to-text semantic relations. A generic approach that relies on word-to-word similarity measures is presented as well as experiments and results obtained with various instantiations of the approach. In addition, we provide results of a study on the role of weighting in Latent Semantic Analysis, a statistical technique to assess similarity of texts. The results were obtained on two data sets: a standard data set on sentence-level paraphrase detection and a data set from an intelligent tutoring system.

scholarly journals Graph-based Representation for Sentence Similarity Measure : A Comparative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.14) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Siti Sakira Kamaruddin ◽  
Yuhanis Yusof ◽  
Nur Azzah Abu Bakar ◽  
Mohamed Ahmed Tayie ◽  
Ghaith Abdulsattar A.Jabbar Alkubaisi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Jaccard Similarity ◽  
Inverse Document Frequency ◽  
Document Frequency ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Document Level

Textual data are a rich source of knowledge; hence, sentence comparison has become one of the important tasks in text mining related works. Most previous work in text comparison are performed at document level, research suggest that comparing sentence level text is a non-trivial problem.  One of the reason is two sentences can convey the same meaning with totally dissimilar words.  This paper presents the results of a comparative analysis on three representation schemes i.e. term frequency inverse document frequency, Latent Semantic Analysis and Graph based representation using three similarity measures i.e. Cosine, Dice coefficient and Jaccard similarity to compare the similarity of sentences.  Results reveal that the graph based representation and the Jaccard similarity measure outperforms the others in terms of precision, recall and F-measures. 

scholarly journals Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain: A Multifaceted Phantasmagorical Narrative

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Zohreh Ramin ◽  
Monireh Arvin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Human Family

When identifying different strands of criticism on Derek Walcott’s play, Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970), one is pleasantly surprised by the scope of theoretical approaches towards his dramatic work. Almost every critical school of literary theory can be found in the writings on Walcott’s play. This diversity in form is paralleled by an even greater variety of content, making it all but impossible to tag Walcott’s drama with a single label. Most critics concur that Dream on Monkey Mountain is a complex play, full of complicated, sometimes, contradictory images and metaphors. Dangling between dreams and reality, Walcott’s play, according to the author of this paper, is a multifaceted narrative. Focusing only on the concept of “dream”, the present article, appreciating and reflecting some of the significant relevant interpretations (all about dreams), tends to add that the identity, thus destiny, of a (colonised) nation is shaped also by their collective unconscious shared in the psychic inheritance of all members of the human family.

scholarly journals Structural-Semantic Analysis of English Proverbs with “Smile”

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Stella Israyelyan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Structural Integrity

The present article specifies the place of the proverbs with “smile” among set phrases based on their structural integrity, unity of sense and the syntactic role they play in a sentence. The analysis also provides their classification according to their meaning, type of the sentence and stylistic value.

El más allá de un ícono: Un enfoque post-biográfico a la imagen de Gabriela Mistral y sus intersecciones con la teoría queer y la cultura visual en Chile. / The Afterlife of an Icon: A post biographic approach to the image of Gabriela Mistral and its ...

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 9-44
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
State Power ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Gabriela Mistral ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender And Nation

El ícono de Mistral ha servido como un retrato de la nación chilena, reflejando una variedad de imágenes analizadas desde la teoría literaria, los estudios culturales, los estudios de género, y, recientemente, desde la teoría queer. En los últimos años, hemos sido testigos de la creciente visibilidad de Gabriela Mistral como disidente sexual, producto de la repatriación del legado Atkinson en 2007 y la consecuente divulgación de las cartas a Doris Dana, quien fuera su pareja durante los últimos 12 años de su vida.El presente artículo contribuye a la producción de conocimiento interesado en las posibilidades de reinterpretación de la vida de Gabriela Mistral, desde una revisión de su vida en tanto ícono de la nación. Se analizan las imágenes de Gabriela Mistral que han servido como iconografía de Estado para discutir tanto las políticas visuales como las sexuales, dentro la cultura chilena de los últimos 60 años. Considerando estos momentos históricos, analizaré el sentido de lo queer en la post-vida de Gabriela Mistral, revisando críticamente el uso de este constructo como una aproximación a su biografía en tanto ícono nacional. Finalmente, establezco ciertos derroteros para la intersección de género y nación a través de la representación icónica (alfabetización visual) de mujeres históricas que condensan repertorios discursivos relativos a las mujeres y el poder de Estado. Mistral’s icon has served as a portrait of the Chilean nation, reflecting a variety of images analyzed from literary theory, cultural and gender studies, and, as of late, queer theory. In recent years, we have been witnesses to the growing visibility of Gabriela Mistral as a sexual dissident as a result of the repatriation of Atkinson’s Legacy in 2007 and the consequent release of Mistral’s letters to Doris Dana, who was her partner during the last 12 years of her life.The present article is interested in the possibilities of reinterpreting and revising the life of Gabriela Mistral and her national iconography. The images of Gabriela Mistral that have served as State iconography are used to analyze visual and sexual politics over the last 60 years of Chilean culture. Considering these historic moments, I will analyze the meaning of queer in the afterlife of Gabriela Mistral, critically revising the use of this construct, not only in regards to her biography but as a national icon. Finally, I establish certain milestones in the scholarship concerned with the intersection of gender and nation, through visual representation of historic women who condense discursive repertoires related to women and State power.

scholarly journals Multi-Label Classification of Contributing Causal Factors in Self-Reported Safety Narratives

Safety ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Automated Classification ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Primary Problem

Three methods are demonstrated for automated classification of aviation safety narratives within an existing complex taxonomy. Utilizing latent semantic analysis trained against 4497 narratives at the sentence level, primary problem and contributing factor labels were assessed. Results from a sample of 2987 narratives provided a mean unsupervised categorization precision of 0.35% and recall of 0.78% for contributing-factors within the taxonomy. Categorization of the primary problem at the sentence level resulted in a modal accuracy of 0.46%. Overall, the results suggested that the demonstrated approaches were viable in bringing additional tools and insights to safety researchers.

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