Story Units Research Articles

Narratives of Home and Country, Emotional Awakening, and Strategic Innovation in New Mainstream Cinema: A Path Analysis of My People My Homeland

With the continuous improvement of the Chinese film market and the trends of political, economic, and cultural diversification, integration, and globalization, new mainstream cinema has emerged as a form accepted by the mass market. My People My Homeland continues the episodic and anthology style of My People, My Country, using five story units to reflect major contemporary issues. This paper analyzes My People My Homeland from the perspectives of structural paradigms, narrative angles, and strategic innovations, exploring the development of new mainstream cinema.

Exploring the affordances of text and picture stories

ABSTRACT We often talk about our narrative experiences with others. For example, we might talk about the latest TV show or book in a series with friends. How does the media of a narrative (text, picture story) affect how we talk about it? Despite the fact that narratives can be experienced across different media, few studies have addressed the impacts of varied media. This study explored similarities and differences in how narratives are experienced across text and sequential picture stories. Picture and text versions were used for the same stories. Participants (n = 132) engaged in a think-aloud task at specific story units and provided ongoing think-aloud responses while reading or viewing. Natural language processing analyses were then conducted on the think-aloud responses. Results indicated that participants produced more words reflecting the internal states of characters and causality when reading than when viewing picture stories. Conversely, they produced more place words when viewing picture stories than reading text. Implications for theory and future directions are discussed.

Characters Link Shots: Character Attention Network for Movie Scene Segmentation

Movie scene segmentation aims to automatically segment a movie into multiple story units, i.e., scenes, each of which is a series of semantically coherent and time-continual shots. Previous methods have continued efforts on shot semantic association, but few take into account the impact of different semantics on foreground characters and background scenes in movie shots. In particular, the background scene in the shot can adversely affect scene boundary classification. Motivated by the fact that it is the characters who drive the plot development of a movie scene, we build a Character Attention Network (CANet) to detect movie scene boundaries in a character-centric fashion. To eliminate the background clutter, we extract multi-view character semantics for each shot in terms of human bodies and faces. Furthermore, we equip our CANet with two stages of character attention. The first is Masked Shot Attention (MSA) through selective self-attention over similar temporal contexts from multi-view character semantics to yield an enhanced omni-view shot representation, by which the CANet can better handle the variations of characters in pose and appearance. The second is Key Character Attention (KCA) through temporal-aware attention on character reappearances for Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) feature association so that linking shots can be focused on those with recurring key characters. We encourage the proposed CANet in learning boundary-discriminative shot features. Specifically, we formulate a Boundary-Aware circle Loss (BAL) to push far apart CANet-features between adjacent scenes, which is also coupled with the cross-entropy loss to drive CANet-features sensitive to scene boundaries. Experimental results on the MovieNet-SSeg and OVSD datasets show that our method achieves superior performance in temporal scene segmentation compared with state-of-the-art methods.

The Alienation Experienced by Bruno & Shmuel in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Alienation is described as encompassing individual psychological states and types of social relationships. In the context of this study, individuals experience profound feelings of disconnection and estrangement (Kalekin-Fishman, 1998). The objective of this research was to elucidate the diverse causes of alienation depicted in the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Analyzing the reasons for alienation in this literary work could provide deeper insights into how war and human atrocities impact an individual's mental well-being. It also contributed to a more comprehensive understanding of the theme of alienation in literary research. The research employed a literature study approach with a psychological perspective, drawing on Erich Fromm's concept of alienation. The primary data source for this study was the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne, focusing on character dialogues and the author's narration within the story units. The novel, published on 5 January 2006, consists of 216 pages. To analyze the data, the researcher collected, reviewed, identified, organized, and drew conclusions from the gathered information. The findings of this research reveal various causes of alienation present in the characters of Bruno and Shmuel in the novel. These causes included alienation arising from interactions with other people, alienation resulting from societal factors, and alienation stemming from internal struggles within themselves. The exploration of these aspects shed light on the complex psychological impacts of alienation amidst the backdrop of war and its atrocities in the narrative of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

Character Education In The Common People Novels By Andrea Hirata

Character education is a crucial aspect of all circles of society, especially for children. This study aims to describe the form and impact of character education, hard work, and social care in the Common people novels by Andrea Hirata. The research was studied using a literary sociology approach. The source of data in this study is the Common people novels by Andrea Hirata, paying attention to the unit of story, sentences, actions, thoughts, and narratives in the novel. The data found is processed through several steps: determining the source, collecting data, grouping data, and assigning a code number to the research instrument table. Data analysis techniques are carried out in several stages: simplification, data checking, data presentation, and conclusions. The results of this study show that various forms of character education were found. The forms of character education are hard work, practice seriously, full of confidence, passion, and never giving up. The form of social care character education is to assist others and respect others. This research shows that literary works can be a means of learning character education for readers. This is because literary works are a mirror of the reality of life.

Kajian antropologi sastra pedagogis pada novel Sokola Rimba karya Butet Manurung

The research aims to describe (1) the main character's adaptation to orang rimba culture; (2) the main character's steps in providing education to the orang rimba in the "Sokola Rimba" novel. This qualitative research uses the theory of Literary Anthropology and Pedagogy. The data source is Butet Manurung's "Sokola Rimba". The data is in the form of story units containing pedagogical literary anthropology elements. Data collection techniques include reading the object of study accompanied by reading theory, making research indicators and data capture tables, and grouping data into data capture tables. The data analysis technique begins with reducing inappropriate data, describing and interpreting the data, and finally concluding the research results. The results of this study are (1) the adaptation carried out by the main character is understanding the local wisdom of the orang rimba, which includes the orang rimba considering the honey tree as a tree of life, the orang rimba believing in natural signs, the orang rimba having skills in obtaining food and saving themselves, and the naming of places by orang rimba; (2) the main character's steps in providing education to the orang rimba include teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, and communicating while maintaining local wisdom.

Representasi Superioritas Tokoh Perempuan dalam Novel Tango dan Sadimin Karya Ramayda Akmal

This study aims to describe the superiority of female characters in the novel Tango and Sadimin by Ramayda Akmal. The approach used in the study is the approach of radical feminism which emphasizes the superiority of women in the reality of literary works. The data source of this study is the novel Tango and Sadimin by Ramayda Akmal. The research data is in the form of story units or story sequences related to the superiority of female characters in the novel. Data analysis technique is done by content analysis through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing stages as the final stage of the study. The results of the study are as follows. First, the form of superiority of women in the public sphere is characterized by all the activities carried out outside the home that are earning a living to make ends meet, establishing cooperation to build a business, being able to live independently, and becoming the backbone of the family. Secondly, the superiority of women in the domestic realm is illustrated through women's responsibilities in taking care of the household, caring for and giving love, and being able to guide their children to become a better person.

REPRESENTASI MASKULINITAS PADA TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL SELAMAT TINGGAL KARYA TERE LIYE

Gender cannot be separated from masculinity and femininity. Masculinity which is a symbol ofmasculinity and leads to men is certainly interesting to study because the masculinity thatexists in each individual is certainly different. Masculinity can also occur in literary works asdocuments containing experiences, stories, and life, which are described by fiction charactersas plays in the storyline. This study aims to (1) describe the forms of masculinity and (2)explain the factors that cause masculinity in the main character in Tere Liye's SelamatDatang novel. Assessed by using a qualitative descriptive method. Data source of this researchis the novel and the research data is in the form of story units, sentences or paragraphsrelated to masculinity. Data collection was carried out by reading the novel and referencesobtained through relevant journals and books. Analysis of research data was carried out byclassifying the data, categorizing the data and finding important issues related to therepresentation of masculinity. The results of this study are the discovery of forms ofrepresentation of masculinity in the characters, namely (1) competitive, (2) independent, (3)easy to make decisions, (4) believe in their own abilities, (5) able to take risks. While thefactors causing Sintong's masculinity are (1) cultural factors, (2) social factors, and (3)personal factors. With that, this novel can be a source of reading to find out therepresentation of masculinity that occurs in the novel.Keywords: masculinity, main character, novel “Selamat Tinggal” by Tere Liye

The Narrative Structure of Ashab al-Kahf Story

This paper examined the narrative structure, language style, and chronology of Aşḥāb Al-Kahfi story in Al-Qur'an. The research data were obtained from Al-Qur'ān. The Qur’anic verses which told about Aşḥāb Al-Kahf were collected in Surah Al-Kahf (18) verses 9-26. The results showed that the narrative structure of this story consists of orientation I, sequence of events I, coda I, complication, orientation II, sequence of events II, orientation III, coda II, orientation IV, and resolution. These structures are interrelated and form a logical, holistic, and beautiful story unit that fulfil all elements of Mark Anderson’s and Kathryn Anderson’s narrative-structure concepts. Meanwhile, the dialogue style dominates in the presentation of stories that are in accordance with the journey of the Prophet’s da’wa. The dialogue style used in the presentation of the story is calm and acceptable. This style is intended to defend the call of the prophet's da'wa and refute people’s rejection in the middle Meccan period through the theme of monotheism value and the mention of Allah’s powers. This study contributes to putting the theory of stylistics and narratology in the reading of story verses. Hence, this paper suggests a further study of the story verse covering the narrative structure’s meaning and function as well as aspects of the beauty of pronunciation and story verse meanings.

Capitalism's Contribution to Environmental Damage in The Novel the Cry of The Truck Pudu Musa Ismail's Work: Ecocritical Study

This study discusses literary works that present issues of nature and the social environment exploited through the oil palm plantation system. This study aims to describe the contribution and impact of capitalism with the depiction of ecological problems in the novel Pudu's Cries. The method used is descriptive qualitative with an ecocritic approach. The data in this study are in the form of quotes from story units, author narration quotes, and character dialogue that describes the character's relationship with nature related to the problem studied. The analysis of the novel is carried out with a discourse approach and an approach reality. Data collection techniques used in this study are reading, and writing techniques note. In this study, the stages of data analysis were carried out interactively, namely data reduction, presentation of data, and conclusions. The results of the study, namely the contribution of capitalism to the environmental damage in the form of cunning, greedy, and selfish attitudes to exploit nature, are the main character of capitalism and have an impact on forest destruction, pollution of rivers, and the safety of the Sakai people.

스토리와 디스플레이

The power of the platform, which determines the form of content creation and consumption, plays a greater role in narrative styles that are inherently platform-dependent, such as webtoons. The ecosystem of webtoons changes depending on which formats are supported and recommended by the platform. The cuttoon format introduced by the Naver platform in consideration of the increase in the number of mobile users is based on a narrative principle different from that of the existing webtoon. Cut-toon allows the reader to experience the story through the segmental unit of story called cut. These characteristics are the basis for having compatibility with existing published comics, while also having affinity with video media through the possibility of using cuts such as montages for cinematic purposes. The space for readers' comments is also segmented, creating an environment for more immediate but more conscious comment participation on the one hand. Therefore, cuttoon can be said to be an evolved form of webtoon that can provide attractive content to both readers familiar with the existing publishing and video media and those familiar with web and mobile culture. Lee Dong-gun's <Yumi's Cells> is a representative webtoon that adapts to the cut-toon format while retaining the charm of traditional comics and it shows narrative potential of cuttoons through the use of features of them.

Story Units of the Types of Japanese Folktales and the Combination with a Noun Conceptual Dictionary

Story Units of the Types of Japanese Folktales and the Combination with a Noun Conceptual Dictionary

De afbakening, delen en opbouw van Exodus 19:1–31:18

Abstract The Delimitation, Partition and Structure of Exodus 19:1–31:18 Many scholars consider Exodus 19–24 the first great story unit of the last complex of Exodus (19:1–40:38). Concerning this story unit there are three problems: (1) the delimitation, (2) the partition, and (3) the structure of this story unit. Firstly, Exodus 19:1 may form the beginning of the story unit, 19:1 is also the final clause of Exodus 18:1–27. A lot of commentators consider 24:18 the end of this story unit. I, however, argue that there is more reason to see 31:18 as the end. Secondly, the partition of the story units after the introduction (19:1–2c). The reader can distinguish three time-units: (a) 19:2d–8c+19:8d–15; (b) 19:16–20:20+20:21–24:4a; (c) 24:4b–31:18. Thirdly, the structure of Exodus 19:1–31:18 is as follows: 19:1–2c (exposition); A 19:2d–8c (programmatic oracle) + 19:8d–15 (announcement of the coming and descent of Jhwh) → B 19:16–20:20 (coming and descent of Jhwh); A’ 20:21–24:4a (working out of the promised future in the programmatic oracle); B’ 24:4b–31:18 (oracle for the institution of the cultus, in which Jhwh can come).

Implementing the Story Units of Japanese Folktales by Using a Verb Conceptual Dictionary

Implementing the Story Units of Japanese Folktales by Using a Verb Conceptual Dictionary

Feedback in Japanese and Australian first encounters

The study investigates how imbalanced information flow is managed and evaluated by the conversational participants in first encounter interactions. From the perspective of balancing obligations (Ohashi, 2008, 2010, 2013), one-way information flow is considered a disturbance to equilibrium. In a data set of ten paired first encounter talks (five collected in Tokyo and the other five in Melbourne), there are instances of small stories where one of the conversational participants temporarily dominates information flow. In each small story unit, the hearer interjects backchannels to align the teller's story telling frame. It can also be explained from the lens of balancing obligations that the hearer interjects backchannels to balance obligations, or in other words, rectify perceived imbalance of conversational contribution. This study builds on Iwasaki's (1997) and McCarthy's classifications of backchannels and develops two novel classifications, feedback (FB: minimal and obligatory backchannels), and feedback plus (FB+: relationally more significant than FB). By integrating participants' metapragmatic comments from the follow-up interviews, the study aims to identify the nature and effect of FB+, using the data gathered in first-encounter, taking age and gender differences, emerging identity, and common ground into consideration.

Context-Based Structure Mining Methodology for Static Object Re-Identification in Broadcast Content

Technological advancement, in addition to the pandemic, has given rise to an explosive increase in the consumption and creation of multimedia content worldwide. This has motivated people to enrich and publish their content in a way that enhances the experience of the user. In this paper, we propose a context-based structure mining pipeline that not only attempts to enrich the content, but also simultaneously splits it into shots and logical story units (LSU). Subsequently, this paper extends the structure mining pipeline to re-ID objects in broadcast videos such as SOAPs. We hypothesise the object re-ID problem of SOAP-type content to be equivalent to the identification of reoccurring contexts, since these contexts normally have a unique spatio-temporal similarity within the content structure. By implementing pre-trained models for object and place detection, the pipeline was evaluated using metrics for shot and scene detection on benchmark datasets, such as RAI. The object re-ID methodology was also evaluated on 20 randomly selected episodes from broadcast SOAP shows New Girl and Friends. We demonstrate, quantitatively, that the pipeline outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods for shot boundary detection, scene detection, and re-identification tasks.

The Quality of Machine Translation Assessment On Gender Markers Lingual Units

Machine Translation (MT) is one of the most advanced and elaborate research fields within Translation Technology, the quality of MT output has always been a great concern, and MT evaluation is a popular research topic. This research aims to assess the quality translation on the gender markers lingual unit of the Arabic short story "عَبْدُ اللهِ وَالْعُصْفُوْرُ" which is translated to English and Indonesian using Machine Translation. The research was qualitatively-based method. The subject is gender markers lingual unit that taken from the Arabic short story "عَبْدُ اللهِ وَالْعُصْفُوْرُ". The key instrument of this research is human instrument. Additional instruments used to support this research consisted tables of the lingual units of gender markers and table of rating scales based on Nababans' theory (2012). The research findings showed that this analysis has discovered were 72 lingual units of gender markers in the short story. Further, the dominant type was personal pronoun. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the google translate translation on the gender markers lingual units have the high quality on the accuracy, acceptance, and readability level.

Implementing Story Units of Japanese Folktales with Conceptual Dictionaries

Implementing Story Units of Japanese Folktales with Conceptual Dictionaries

Adaptive Context Reading Network for Movie Scene Detection

Video scene detection is the task of temporally segmenting a video into its basic story units called scenes. We propose a temporal context aware scene detection method. For each shot in a video, we store the time-indexed features of its surrounding shots as its context memory. A context-reading operation is performed to read the most relevant information from the memory which is used to update the feature of the query shot. To adaptively determine the temporal scale of context memory for different queries, we apply a bank of context memories of different temporal scales to generate multiple context reads, and adaptively aggregate them according to their confidence scores. The adaptive context-reading is guided by a structure learning objective which encourages each shot to read the most appropriate context such that the global structure of scene can be revealed in the feature space. With the context-aware shot features learned by our method, we perform clustering to find the scene boundaries. Our experiments demonstrate that adaptively modeling temporal context yields the state-of-the-art results on the existing video scene detection datasets. We also construct a large-scale dataset for the task and our ablation studies on it show that the performance gains owe to the proposed adaptive context reading.

A Preliminary Study to Recognise Loloda Nomads’ Identity: A Description of Loloda Community Folklore

The glory of the Loloda kingdom was lost after it was annexed by the Sultanate of Ternate. This situation also impacts on the lack of attention of writers and researchers who study Loloda in general, and the ethnic culture of Loloda Overseas (OLP) in particular, though they have a noble cultural identity that needs to be preserved and passed down. This initial study of OLP cultural identity aims to reproduce and describe the folklore that is the treasure of OLP ethnic identity. The findings of this study are in the form of descriptions of 6 (six) story units of folklore. The 6 folktales are titled; The Ori Eating Tradition (Turtle), The Origin of the Kora-Kora Place Name, The Origin of the Aermadidi Place Name (Loloda Version), The Origins of the Tradition of Serving Loloda, the Tradition of Tooth Brutting, and the Foot washing Tradition.