scholarly journals Reflections on Ludification: Approaching a Conceptual Framework – And Discussing Inherent Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Bo Kampmann Walther ◽  
Lasse Juel Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Focus Point

This article discusses the relatively new concept of ludification with the attempt of laying the theoretical groundwork for further studies. Although ludification ties in with both gamification and the concept and practice of transmedia it possesses unique characteristics and qualities of its own, primarily evolving around games and playful ways of structuring stories. The focus point is how traditional media such as tv-series and movies incorporate game-like traits and structures into their narrative structure. This concerns both the narrative structures that users can and cannot interact with. Among other things, we consider a deep understanding of ludification vital for the more practically oriented approach to learning through (serious) games. Thus, this paper serves as a prolegomenon to the interpretation of works of ludification, as well as to the diverse field of deploying gamified material in didactical and pedagogical context. In addition to the conceptual groundwork for understanding ludification and how it manifests itself we propose an analytical method for unearthing the traits and structures of ludification: we have coined this method the ludo-interpretation. Furthermore, this article discusses the merits and shortcomings of ludification and the ludo-interpretation in the final section where we deploy a Popperian inspired three-levelled falsification and refutation technique.

Being Serious: Modiano’s Use of History

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Akane Kawakami
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
French History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Moral Choices

Modiano is still often thought of as a novelist of the Occupation, although he famously did not live through the period; nevertheless, his descriptions of les années noires are startling in their authenticity. This chapter examines what Modiano is doing by resurrecting – and appropriating – this particularly problematic period of French history in his novels. It suggests that, by placing the (French) reader within the period through the use of the empty narrator, the disorderly narrative structure and the unreal mode of representation, Modiano makes sure that s/he is deeply implicated in it. The narrative structures (analysed in the preceding chapters) ensure that the act of reading involves the making of moral choices for the reader, drawing him/her into the period which is brought alive by the ‘real’ names of places and people which refer back to history and reality.

Narrative Structure of Storytelling in Kelantanese Dialect

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Norashikin Azmi ◽  
Hanita Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Audio Recording ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Interview Session ◽  
Systematic Structure

Human interaction involves a process of sharing experiences, telling stories, and retelling stories in a form of narration. While telling story, the narration is structured in a way to make sense to the audiences.This study examined the narrative structures in Kelantanese dialect used by young female native speakers. The participants were two (2) female Kelantanese students, aged 25 and 27 years old, who have completed their undergraduate studies in local universities. Audio recording and semi-structured interview were two types of instruments used for the data collection. Interview session of 1012 words was analyzed using a combination of the theory of Malay sentence classifications and the theory of narrative structure. The findings of this study reveal that the narration in Kelantanese dialect has a systematic structure which consists of title and elaboration. The title consists of the abstract and orientation, while elaboration includes the four stages of narrative structure which are complication, evaluation, resolution and coda. The findings show that the story is unfolded in a structural manner-which means it has the idea and the elaboration of the idea (the story).

A Maqāma Collection by a Mamlūk Historian: al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya by al-Ḥasan b. Abī Muḥammad al-Ṣafadī (fl. First Quarter of the 8th/14th c.)

Arabica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 631-663
Author(s):  
Maurice A. Pomerantz
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Unpublished Manuscript ◽  
Narrative Structures

This article is a description and guide to the contents of al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya by al-Ḥasan b. Abī Muḥammad al-Ṣafadī (fl. first quarter of the 8th/14th c.). The article begins with a discussion of the life of the author al-Ṣafadī and his works. It provides evidence for his biography derived from unpublished manuscript sources. The article then considers features of the authorial context of al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya, including notes found in Laleli ms 1929, and evidence for the dedication of al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya to the famed geographer, historian, and ruler of Hama, al-Malik al-Muʾayyad Abū l-Fidāʾ (672/1273-732/1332). The remainder of the article provides a description of al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya, its narrative structures, the contents of the thirty individual maqāmāt, and explores parallels between al-Maqāmāt al-Ǧalāliyya and other works of the maqāma genre. The final section includes a sample text of al-Maqāma l-Tīzīniyya and an accompanying commentary.

scholarly journals The Narrative Structures of Glory and Glorification in the Fourth Gospel

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesper Tang Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Main Structure ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Divine Identity

This article takes part in the reopened discussion of the Johannine δόξα/δοξάζϵιν by interpreting the concept in light of the narrative structures in the Fourth Gospel. On the basis of Aristotle's definition of a whole and complete μῦθος and his distinction between πϵριπϵ́τϵια and ἀναγνώρισις it is shown that the main structure in the Johannine narrative concerns humans' recognition of Jesus' identity as son of God. As a consequence of being firmly integrated in this narrative structure, the Johannine concept δόξα/δοξάζϵιν basically denotes divine identity and recognition. Opposing a contemporary trend in Johannine studies it is finally argued that δόξα/δοξάζϵιν in the Fourth Gospel should be understood within the normal narrative sequence.

scholarly journals Drawing as a Way of Knowing: Visual Practices as the Route to Becoming Academic

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 173-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Abegglen ◽  
Tom Burns ◽  
Sandra Sinfield
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
First Year ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Learning Module ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

This case study illustrates what happened when we took a playful approach in a first year undergraduate academic skills module and a graduate Facilitating Student Learning module asking our students to “draw to learn.” We found that they not only enjoyed the challenges we set them, but also that they “blossomed” and approached their academic writing with more confidence and joy. Hence we argue for a more ludic approach to learning and teaching in Higher Education to enable Widening Participation students and their tutors to become the academic writers they want to be. In particular “blind drawing” seems to be a powerful tool for diminishing the fear of failure and for fostering deep understanding as well as self-confidence.

scholarly journals Lingual Aspects of Mystical Narration in V. Shevchuk’s Novel “The Beginning of Horror”

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Florij Batsevych
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
The Individual

In recent decades, the researchers of artistic stories have paid their attention to the narrative analysis of a set of weird texts of mystical and absurd content, works of “black humour”, fantastic (khymerna) prose created by a non-anthropic narrator or by an author in a changed state of consciousness. These texts serve the field of actualizing atypical and non-usual narrative structures, the sphere of meaningful changes within the bounds of narrative categories and, which is important, of forming special communicative senses of aesthetic nature. The basic problems of the linguistic analysis of “unnatural” stories are identifying the types of changes in the narration constituents, reasons of these changes and narrative categories (first of all, events, participants, objects, chronotope characteristics, points of view, moduses, modalities, etc.). The article analyses one of the texts of mystical content aiming at the revealing of some specificities of the structure and functioning of the so-called “unnatural artistic narrations”. The object of the research is V. Shevchuk’s novel “The Beginning of Horror”. The subject of the analysis is lingual means of the narrative structure formation, the author’s objectification of the mystical artistic sense and lingual “signals” of a reader’s perception of these senses. The most important semantic means of creating mystical atmosphere of the story are predicates that ascribe the names of their referents atypical dynamic and static features connected with the Christian view of the infernal world. It helps to form narrative events that root in weird situations, which cannot take place in reality. Non-dispositional nature of these situations correlates with the reference to the mystery that goes far beyond the bounds of a usual perceptive and psycho-mental background. Among the pragmatic means of creating mystical atmosphere of the main hero’s story as well as of the novel in general, we specify the individual inimitative perception of the flow of time and modality of “real unreality” formed by the role of an unreliable narrator and a vague point of view of the described event with its perceptive, ideological and time planes of objectification. Due to the increasing interest to various expressions of the esoteric, the increase of the number of artistic works of such content and growth of their popularity, we consider it topical to proceed in further investigations of lingual-narrative aspects of “unnatural” stories, in particular, the ones with the modus of mystical in them.

scholarly journals THE NARRATIVE COMPONENT OF THE LIFE SCRIPTS ANALYSYS

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Inokentii Korniienko
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Narrative Psychology ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
Life Scripts ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrative Interviewing

The article is devoted to the analysis of awareness in life scripts based on verbalization of life experience by the subject in the process of narrative interview. A narrative approach aims to make visible phenomena which has already shaped our identity. The purpose of the article is research of narrative psychology opportunities for understanding by the individual the existing life scenario and possibilities of its freeing and expanding, building an autonomous life path, full of responsibility and creativity. It has been pointed out that according to the representatives of the transactional analysis theory the life scenario influences the life path of the personality. The comedy, the victory of life over death, romance, idealization of the past and traditions; tragedy, that shows the defeat of the hero and his expulsion from the society; irony which is to question all previous narrative structures were distinguished as the narrative structures of personality. It has been discussed that the study of the life scenario has its difficulties and limitations. The use of narrative interviewing creates wide opportunities for a deep understanding of the specifics of the individual’s life scenario. The use of this method allows to determine the scriptural beliefs of the person, the further analysis of which is a prerequisite for understanding and correcting the scripted life path.

Socialisation and decision-making in the Council of the European Union

2016 ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Kamil Ławniczak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Causal Framework ◽  
Oriented Approach

The complex system of decision-making in the Council of the European Union has many specific features which require explanation. This article presents a constructivist approach to this problem and focuses on the influence of socialisation. First, it explains why inquiry into the decision-making in the Council from the constructivist perspective is justified and then proposes the use of process-tracing, a method that allows to trace causal mechanisms linking the effects of socialisation and the characteristics of decision-making in the Council. Second, a typology of socialisation mechanisms and effects is presented. The third section is an attempt to use the inductive variety of process-tracing in order to explain certain qualities of decision-making in the Council. The final section outlines the theory-oriented approach to process-tracing, which could follow from the presented conceptualisation and explains the need to include the constitutive aspects of socialisation within the causal framework of process-tracing research.

Emotions, Activism and Documentary Storytelling: A Biographical Production-Based Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Tom Murray
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Narrative Structures

Abstract The biography of Douglas Grant (c.1885–1951) has been publicly and popularly told in media since 1916. Interestingly, Grant’s unusual life-story has consistently been deployed to serve various political agendas. This essay examines the role of popular-media biographies of Douglas Grant and the emotions embedded in them, and utilises a documentary-film production as a case study to examine relations between these emotions, activist agendas and documentary-film storytelling. Additionally, given the consistent use of tragedy as a formal narrative structure employed in tellings of Douglas Grant’s story, this essay also describes how narrative structures are not culturally neutral, but are themselves emotionally suggestive cultural productions. Analysing a century of tellings of the Douglas Grant biography, this essay also offers insights into how conquest-colonial ideology is manifest in these often ‘tragic’ tales. As an attempt at decolonising scholarship, this essay also responds to insights by Indigenous commentators within the case-study text to reflect on Indigenous ontologies and the role of Country and Indigenous futurism as places/sites/histories of hope.

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