Narrative Discourse Research Articles

Neutrosophic analysis of the factors determining the development of humorous discourse in videos using the TOPSIS method

YouTube is moving towards personalized media. In 2011, Enchufe TV became an Ecuadorian online comedy series known for its witty humor. Taking advantage of the openness of the Internet, the video is currently available to watch on the YouTube platform. The purpose of this study is to conduct an unbiased analysis of the factors that determine the development of humorous discourse in TV Antufe's YouTube videos using the TOPSIS method. To understand the growth of the show and its audience, we compared its premiere year to 2022 across 10 years. At the same time, data such as comedy type, language level, audio-visual narrative, and humorous discourse were collected to quantitatively understand the popularity and influence of the play at the time. There. Variables such as views, audience engagement, and subscriber base growth are analyzed, as well as objective measures of content relevance and influence within the platform environment. Enchufe TV's decline in user activity can also be explained by several factors, such as the emergence of new platforms and content saturation. We also found that blue spoken words were the most widely used, with popularity varying by year of study.

Grigore Cugler și apunakismul. De la prozele scurte din Apunake și alte fenomene la Afară-de-Unu-Singur

This article continues a previous approach on Grigore Cugler’s avant- garde texts (re)exploration and (re)discovery, Grigore Cugler și dimensiunea spectaculară a „romanului” Apunake / Grigore Cugler and the spectacular dimension of Apunake ‘novel’ (2023). As it is already known, Grigore Cugler represents a writer often associated with Urmuz, one of the central models of Romanian avant-garde literature. By using close reading methods with connections to stylistic analysis, the article focuses on the short stories that accompany the false ‘novel’ Apunake from the volume Apunake și alte fenomene (1934), such as Match nul, Logodin, Criptomestrula, Drumul dragostei, Scrisoare, and Erată. By continuing a previous approach on which we highlighted the way the poetics of the absurd spectacular is presented in Cugler’s texts, we aim to show a perpetuation of the writer’s specific poetics, that of apunakism. Apunakism represents a form of manifestation of Grigore Cugler’s poetics of absurd in his avant-garde texts, characterized by the presence of ‘twists and turns’ type of situations, ‘upside-down’ and alienated characters, alternate worlds, linguistic and stylistic mechanisms and experiments that continuously surprise the reader. We will also observe the perpetuation of this specific poetics and a particular narrative discourse of the writer crystallized in the texts from the 1934 volume to the 1946 volume, Afară-de-Unu-Singur.

Incorporating Textual Analysis for Genre Measurement of Narrative Discourse in Business English

Abstract In recent years, business English narrative genre research has been characterized by ambiguous concepts, insufficient theoretical basis, and single-genre features, which have weakened the reliability of research conclusions. Accordingly, this paper examines the representative genre of business English narrative, “management discussion and analysis report”, and explores its genre characteristics and its mapping relationship with corporate performance. The measurement framework is based on the discourse level, genre level, professional practice level, and professional culture level and builds a textual analysis path. In order to observe the lexico-grammatical features highlighted in the four levels of discourse, this paper designs the linguistic feature extraction process and the keyword information extraction method involved in the process. This paper improves the LDA model by introducing the emotional information factor, and improves the keyword extraction algorithm in the model based on information theory. According to the designed method for extracting linguistic features, the representative genre text is analyzed in terms of intonation. Through empirical analysis, it is found that the positive tone and negative tone of the retrospective part of the text of the representative genre are correlated with the current year’s performance of the enterprise at a significant level of 1%, and the positive tone is positively correlated with the current year’s performance, while the negative tone is negatively correlated with the current year’s performance. The positive and negative tone of the outlook texts is not significantly related to the performance of enterprises in the next year. The association of genre characteristics with the current year’s performance of the enterprise is evident but not with the next year’s performance. This paper’s text analysis path can be explored in detail for business English narrative discourse genre measures.

Good Ol’ Boys and Beer: A Moral Framework for Understanding Republican Values in Country Music

The narrative discourse of country music from 2016 to 2021 constructs a worldview clinging onto a nostalgic sense of community and moral values despite a world torn asunder by Covid 19, politics, race, gender, and religion. Country music during these tumultuous times offers listeners a moral community and a sense of unchanging place and shared meaning. In this article. I examine the construction of moral communities in contemporary country music by unpacking the structure of small-town values and sensibilities, including the vestigial Puritan religious attachments to the Judeo-Christian bible and loyal attachments to a poetic sense of place and community. I argue that a close narrative analysis of Top Billboard Country Music’s lyrics reveals how these hometown values are framed to construct a world of collective effervescence.

Critique of the Teleological presuppositions of Peace-Conflict-Development Narrative Discourse in Africa

Implicit in the dominant conceptualisations of discursive peace in relation to conflict and development is the intrinsic presupposition of peace as "the means" towards the cessation of conflict - "the end", whose by-product is necessarily development. Several works have interrogated and criticised this peace construct. These works, often usually recast peace as a social fact imbued with a teleological implication towards progressive ideals of development and end of conflict. This reductionist approach is heavily influenced by Western social philosophy, particularly Aristotelianism, as surmised in Book IV of his (Aristotle’s) Political treatise. After examining several prominent works on peace, conflict, and development by African scholars, we observe that their works are not immune from this utilitarian influence. We, therefore, argue for a refocusing and hermeneutical re-understanding of peace as a process in a continuum rather than as the means towards an end. The paper, therefore, critiques the teleological presuppositions of peace-conflict-development narrative discourse in classical and contemporary African literature. It also employed narrative theory in explaining the nexus between peace, conflict, and development in contemporary times. The explanatory and historical designs were adopted to facilitate a better understanding of the thrust literature on the ontology of peace, conflict, and development in the contemporary world.

내러티브와 시의 목소리

In this paper, ‘narrative’ is a key concept in Jerome Bruner’s later theory, and ‘the voice of poetry’ is one of the major terms in Michael Oakeshott’s educational theory. The purpose of this paper is to extend and refine Bruner’s narrative discourse in the light of Oakeshott’s idea of ‘the voice of poetry.’ Broadly speaking, the voice of poetry helps to reveal the specific content of narrative discourse and the kind of image of humanity to be cultivated through narrative. Oakeshott suggests that ‘conversation’ is the proper form of human intercourse and emphasizes the role of the voice of poetry in making this possible. It follows that the ‘narrative mode of thought’ is also the basis for enabling human activity. For when one works with the narrative mode of thought, one negotiates meaning with others who are concrete beings like oneself. The ‘paradigmatic mode of thought,’ which contrasts with the ‘narrative mode of thought,’ presents an image of humanity as a researcher of a system who aims to complete a logical system. The ‘paradigmatic mode of thought’ cannot operate in a narrative way because the self cannot be included in the logical system it is trying to create. What this research has shown is that the image of humanity we want to foster through narrative education is a human being who can recognize others as concrete selves and accept human universal values through the negotiation of meaning. This means that the content of education must be the humanities, including literature and the arts.

Moderation of the Narrative Discourse and Historical Authenticity in William Faulkner's ABSALOM, ABSALOM!

Objectives: The study aims to introduce Faulkner's concept of moderation in narrative discourse and its relationship to historical authenticity, to determine how this concept is embodied in the structure and the language of the novel. The study also aims to show how Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! Reflects aspects of historical authenticity by employing the concept of moderation as a basis for balance in narrative discourse. 
 Methods: Fisher and Ravizza's theory of responding to moderate reasons was chosen as the theoretical framework for the study. The descriptive analytical method was used to analyze selected texts from Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! to investigate how moderation and historical authenticity are embodied in the narrative discourse of that novel. The results obtained from the analysis were then compared with Fisher and Ravizza's theory to highlight the relationships between the concepts of moderation and historical authenticity and how each influences the other. 
 Results: The concept of moderation is evident in highlighting important aspects of historical authenticity. The narrative discourse relies on historical authenticity as as a crucial foundation for achieving a balance, effectively influencing the portrayal of the concept of moderation. Faulkner's narrative discourse is closely associated with historical authenticity. Balance is achieved in the novel by embodying the concepts of moderation and historical authenticity. 
 Conclusions: Faulkner reformulates the narrative discourse of the concept of moderation with historical authenticity that leads him to strengthen the spirit of tolerance as an essential component of the balance of that discourse.

Narrating Agency and a Reflective Self in “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday

Advancements in modern “post-classical narratology” have undergone unprecedented growth in the last two decades, giving rise to various directions of narratological research within the cognitive and diachronic domains. One such approach is biosemiotics, which appeared at the crossroads of semiotics and cultural biology and combines a set of definitions for meaning-making and agency construction in philosophy, linguistics, culture, and all complex systems. Agency here represents any kind of subject activity (e.g., epistemic, cognitive, etc.) which is possible to determine by the indices and icons of subjectivity on the level of the storyline development and then compared at the level of the discourse. From the biosemiotic approach, the narrative discourse as a complex system is characterized by the meaning emergence and telic behavior of all its constituent parts striving at closure and a certain goal, i.e., having some sort of agenda (Mendoza-Collazos&Zlatev, 2022). Thus, the agency is supplementary to the acting of the self-reflecting subject in terms of intentionality, self-referentiality, and self-governing activity. Following the above definition of agency, this paper examines the possible ways of applying Peircian triadic sign theory to narrative agency construction in the contemporary novel “Asymmetry” (2018) by Lisa Halliday, operating with the notions of embodied or bodily agency (Caracciolo&Kukkonen, 2021) and biosemiotic agency (Tønnessen, 2015). Seeing subjectivity related to perspective-taking in the narrative discourse, it is important to trace the distribution of the icons and indexes of subjectivity on three levels: semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic.

Erotism and poetic hybridization of Koffi Kwahulé

Since the 19th century, we have witnessed a liberation of morals testifying to the overabundance of sex in which contemporary people are immersed to the point of being tolerated by social and even religious morals. The body and sexual manifestations appear everywhere, especially in literature. With balanced writing and representations of sexuality, contemporary authors are part of a daring, even erotic poetics. The present contribution entitled “Eroticism and poetics of hybridization of Koffi Kwahulé”, is structured around this axis of analysis. The article takes into account all of the author's romantic work, namely Babyface, (Paris, Gallimard, 2006, 212 p), Monsieur Ki, rhapsodie parisienne à sourire pour caresser le temps (Paris, Gallimard, 2010, 160 p) and Nouvel an chinois (Paris, Zulma, 2015, 233p). In these novels, the author bets on anerotic aesthetic. The sexualization of narration eroticizes both textuality and narrative discourse. The body of and in the novel expresses itself and frees itself from social constraints through the enterprise of scriptural games and themes relating to this notion such as those of love, seduction and romanticism. Our approach, which aims to be postmodern, is limited to pointing out the socio-cultural dimension of eroticism. By examining the aestheticization of the body in Kwahulean fiction, the analysis explores the way in which the author constructs behavior and certain sexual practices. Thus, this article, based on a narrative semiotic analysis, demonstrates that the playful exploitation of the body leads to the deconstruction of preconceived ideas about novelistic creation while reflecting on contemporary cultural values and norms. By posing the problem of the body as a paradigm for representing the relationships of man to his being and to society, eroticism contributes to modifying the view on sexuality in general and initiates the reconfiguration of the social discourse on sex which is defined as an expression of human’s freedom. Key words: erotic, aesthetic, body, sexuality, hybridization

Functional Interdiscursivity and Linguistic Conventions in Neuronovels

This study aims to challenge, both theoretically and practically, the concept of genre in translation studies. First, starting from the conceptual delimitation and theoretical boundaries between text type, genre and register, this article presents the characteristics of these concepts and their applicability in relation to the translation process. Secondly, by exploiting the functionality of interdiscursivity and hybridisation of genres, the present analysis proposes a discussion of how the neuronovel fluidises the boundaries between literary genre and neuroscientific discourse through the “neurologisation” of vocabulary, style and narrative strategies, and of the particularities that the translation of neuronovels or literary neurotranslation reveals. The study concludes with a case study of the translation into Romanian of Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn (1999), focusing on the translation strategies of simple and complex vocal tics and on the translation difficulties imposed by the atypicality of narrative discourse told from the perspective of a character diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.

Traumatisme d’après-guerre : confl its mentaux et stratégies discursives. Étude sémio-pragmatique d’Un désir fou de danser d’Élie Wiesel

The question of Holocaust survivors and Jewish identity are at the heart of Elie Wiesel’s fiction and nonfiction, where the author looks to emphasise characters’ psychological struggles with demons of the past. The aim of this paper is to approach A Mad Desire to Dance from a semio-pragmatic point of view in order to examine persuasive strategies which involve readers participating in the narrative discourse and identifying the nature of protagonist’s psychological disorders. The analysis, related to Holocaust studies, shows that the construction of the novel influences readers so that they can sympathize with characters whose personal life is deeply affected by a post-war trauma.

The Discourse and its References in Maha Hassan's Novels - Selected Models

This research was written under the title (The Discourse and its References in Maha Hassan's Novels - Selected Models). It aims at clarifying the concept of discourse and its references in the works of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist (Maha Hassan). This topic has been chosen due to the fact the previous studies have not tackled the mechanism of discourse formation and its references in the work of this novelist, and her vision of the world that she conveyed to us through narrative discourse techniques, including: the narrator and his/her listener, which are studied in this research.
 The importance of the research lies in addressing topics relating to Man and our Modern Age including: migration, women, identity, sense of belonging, center and margin, and others. In this study, the researcher draws on the (formative structuralist) approach, which links literature to the product and society, and shows the dialectical relationship between narrative discourse and society. It also focuses on the relationship of the artistic structure of the literary work with reality and social awareness because the novel as a literary work, particularly that of Maha Hasan’s, is closely related to society and its transformations. 
 In conclusion, the researcher arrived at several results, including: there is a clear difference in the experiences of (Maha Hassan) as a novelist in Syria and in France. Migration provided her with a suitable atmosphere to reveal her Kurdish identity, and it also provided her with the freedom to express her vision to the public, and to express her feminist bias.

The Anti-Mimetic Function of Paratext in Wilkie Collins’s Framed Narrative After Dark

The use of mimetic and diegetic modes of storytelling has significant implications for the meaning and interpretation of Wilkie Collins’s (1824-1889) short story collection After Dark (1856). By using a framed narrative structure, Collins highlights the mimetic features of the stories in his collection. He creates a semi-factual atmosphere through dividing the story universe into two levels. On the first level, the discourse of the primary narrator and his wife emphasizes the mimetic nature of the six realistic stories recounted on the second level. Through following such a structure, the author seeks to create the illusion that the stories in the collection are biographical accounts. Verisimilitude, or lifelikeness, is therefore presented as the primary narrative property in After Dark. However, as this article mainly argues, the authorial discourse presented in Collins’s general preface to the collection—which, to use Gerard Genette’s term, is a paratext or threshold—dismantles the characters’ realistic pretentions on the two levels of the storyworld. More precisely, by calling the six narrated stories in the collection the offspring of his own imagination, Collins’s paratextual preface destroys the highlighted mimetic claims on the two levels in the storyworld.

Transkriptionspraktiken in der Kunstkommunikation.

The article explores the expressions and purposes of linguistic transcription methods in the realm of art communication, taking a linguistic approach. Within the discourse surrounding artworks, a crucial linguistic practice is description. Description can be understood as a purposeful process of translation from one form of sign to another, grounded in the semiotic principle of transcriptivity, as proposed by Jäger (2010). Descriptions of art consistently draw from prior discourses, utilizing them to guide the conceptualisation of visual experiences within the framework of language. They encompass a wide range, from narrative and argumentative discourse within the institutional context of art history to the quest for meaning during conversations in front of artworks, to the multi-modal appropriation of art within the sphere of social media. After theoretical clarifications, the article gives examples of analysis from different domains of art communication. The first concerns the scholarly description of images in art. The second example analysis is devoted to spontaneous oral descriptions of a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, which were produced as part of a teaching project, and the third case deals with art communication on Twitter/X.

Invisible or “The Fine Art of Scribbling:” Paul Auster’s Metafiction in Postmodern Narrative Discourse

The intention of this article is to study Paul Auster’s novel Invisible (2009) as an exercise in metafiction and a poststructuralist game in which Auster introduces different fictional layers to make the figure of the author disappear. Auster presents the story of Adam Walker and Rudolph Born, two characters who become antagonists but whose lives depend on each other. By a series of narrations, the novel tells how the story of these two characters extends in time, challenging literary genres and multiplying different narrative layers.

The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani

This paper analyses the discourse structure of the language of the timpani (a single-membrane goblet-shaped drum) of the Dagomba. Using data from video recordings of predawn performances and interviews with the drummers, it shows that the timpani performance is an elaborate and structured narrative discourse that blends panegyrics, prayers and exhortations directed at chiefs, citizens, spiritual and historical beings. The use of the timpani is a borrowed tradition from the Asante in the 1700s, along with many aspects of Asante cultural communication, including Akan as a dominant language of encoding. During its centuries of adaptation, it has incorporated aspects of the culture of the Dagomba, including the production of speech in Dagbani during lengthy performances, making it a unique bilingual talking drum. The paper shows that this instrumentally encoded bilingual narrative exhibits the discourse properties of oral or written text and can be subjected to the same formal discourse analysis.

Tracing Hijra Ethnicity in Indian Transgender Autobiographies: Revisiting the Erased Hijra Legacy through Trans Self-memory

Transgender people in India are categorized under various regional and culturally bound terms. Hijras is one such transgender category indigenous to the religious and cultural history of the land. They are considered ethnic clans because of their self-identification with Hijra legacy. This article critically explicates Indian transgender autobiographies as narrative accounts of the collective experiences of transgender communities, transgressing the borders of self-memory to collective memory and consciousness. Transgenders experiencing trauma from victimization are bereft of agency and autonomy to assert their epistemic value in the discursive process. Heteronormative narrative discourses subvert transgender subjectivity, perpetuating normative modalities that result in epistemic amnesia regarding transgender concerns. Individual transgender autobiographical narratives become the assertion of epistemic agency rooted in trans subjectivity, representing the collective legacy of the hijra clan. Hijra autobiographies are the panacea for the collective amnesia of normative society that obliterates the hijra cultural legacy. The authorial narrative diegesis evidences the replication of customs and rituals of the hijra heritage in modern milieu.

Religious Moderation In Islamic Portals: Study of mainstreaming religious moderation in the digital space

The idea of religious moderation has existed since before the Ministry of Religion published a book on moderation initiated by Lukman Hakim, but after technological developments there have been changes in attitudes towards moderation, especially in the media with the many conservative narratives that build discourse about Islam which returns to the Sunnah and Al-Qur'an. -Qur'an. This research explains the discourse on religious moderation built by Islamic portals affiliated with Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, both of which have a long track record in voicing peaceful Islamic attitudes in Indonesia. The data in this research uses qualitative methods combined with literature review research on sources and journals that are still relevant to the research, then the analysis tool uses R. Entman's framing analysis. The findings achieved regarding the narrative discourse on religious moderation in the digital space on the Nu Online and Suaramuhammadiyah portals are that there is a desire for the formation of public understanding of the dangers of conservative Islam and the importance of understanding religious moderation more deeply in order to avoid the dangers of developing narratives. Both portals have a style its own framing in voicing and interpreting the discourse on the importance of a moderate attitude.

Phonetic‐phonological disturbances of spontaneous speech in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease due to A431E PSEN1 mutation

AbstractBackgroundConsiderable cognitive research in Alzheimer Disease (AD) has focused on memory as it is often the primary symptom; nevertheless, in A431E PSEN1 mutation carriers in Jalisco, a rapidly language impairment and verbal fluency decrease during the disease is reported (Petersen‐Dumois, et al., 2020) though this deficit is not well‐characterized. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize phonetic‐phonological abnormalities in the spontaneous speech through different stages of A431E PSEN1 mutation‐related AD.MethodEleven symptomatic A431E PSEN1 mutation carriers, with a mean age of 42.54 years (DE = 4.17) participated in the study: five with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), three with Mild Dementia (MiD) and five with Moderate Dementia (MoD). We used three language tasks: trip planning, picture description, and narrative discourse of a risky and happy moment of their lives which were recorded and transcribed. For each participant, we computed the frequency of phonetic‐phonological features: stuttering, unintelligible productions, phonological paraphasias, fillers and pauses (≥2 seconds) and then converted into percentages dividing the number of occurrences of each feature by the number of words used on the speech sample (for pauses, time in seconds). Then, we obtained the percentage mean of each feature per group.ResultWe analyzed a total of 134.65 minutes of speech sample. Regarding verbal fluency, words per minute (means) varied across the groups MCI: 85.55 (SD = 39.34); MiD: 128.56 (SD = 34.14) MoD: 67.80. (SD = 32.71). All phonological features were present, stuttering: MCI: 1.38%; MiD: 3.2%; MoD: 4.05%; unintelligible productions: MCI: .22%; MiD: .64%; MoD: .76%; phonological paraphasias; MCI: 0.002%; MiD: .01% MoD: .01%; fillers: MCI: 2.05%; MiD: .29%; MoD: 2.88%; number of pauses: MCI: .04%; MiD: .05%; MoD: .03%. and pauses average: MCI: 3.42 (SD = .62); MiD: 2.55 (SD = .03) MoD = 3.43. (SD: 1.61).ConclusionWe found that A431E PSEN1 mutation carriers present phonetic‐phonological traits even in the earliest stage (MCI) and for three of them (stuttering, unintelligible productions, and phonological paraphasias) their frequency is greater the more severe the impairment (MoD). Stuttering is their most prominent feature. These disturbances in the spontaneous speech could be a phenotype trait of this ADAD mutation.

Collaborative Complaints, Alignment, and Identity Positioning During Teacher-Mentor Post-Observation Meetings

ABSTRACT Post-observation meetings are shown to be important contexts for language teacher identity development. Studies examining post-observation discourse have observed teachers negotiating identities as developing novices and knowledgeable experts through narrating difficult experiences, articulating pedagogical rationale, contesting colleagues’ decisions, and imagining future selves. Responding to calls to further investigate identity negotiation during post-observation meetings, this study adopted a narrative discourse analytic lens to explore how two graduate TESOL student teachers constructed identity positions through collaborative reflection about co-teaching and mentoring relationships. The findings highlight the complexity of overlapping identity positions constructed in relation to different factors within teachers’ ecologies as well as how identity is constructed both within the content of narrated small stories and through the interactional practice of storytelling. Findings are discussed in light of research on language teacher identity development, small stories in teacher education, and post-observation discourse, with implications for supporting novice language teachers through peer mentoring and collaborative reflection.