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Computing action. A narratological approach

Computing action. A narratological approach

Information publiée le 9 juin 2004 par Marielle Macé

 

Jan Christoph Meister, Computing Action. A Narratological Approach, t. 2, 2003

The following gives an outline of the project which is described in detail in my book Computing Action. A Narratological Approach'.

 (1) Based on a survey of philosophical definitions of the common sense concept of action' a constructivist notion of represented action was developed. (2) This approach was augmented by a semiologic definition of narrated action in the tradition of Greimassian theory which lead to a new definition of the narratological key concepts event', episode' and action' as combinatorial readerly constructs. (3) These narratological concepts were then implemented in a Humanities Computing methodology for the analysis of narrated actions. The development of two  software tools was essential to the implementation of our theory: EventParser is a Markup tool that facilitates syntactically and conceptually consistent tagging and semantic declaration of events' in a narrative text. This program was developed in VB 6.0. - EpiTest is a program for combinatorial analysis of the potential for chaining these pre-defined events into episodes, and episodes into complex actions in accordance with the semiological criteria set down in the theoretical part of the study. EpiTest was written in PROLOG. - The software  (including numerous protocol files and installation instructions) is available for download.

Table of contents:

Foreword by Marie-Laure Ryan

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Concepts of Action  

1.1  Action as Project and Construct                                                  

1.2  Action: From Word to Concept

  • The Etymology of the German Word Handlung
  • Action as a Concept of Poetics
  • Towards a Concept of Aesthetic Action
  • Action I: Singular Agential Activity
  • Action II: Complex (Multi-agential) Sequence of Events
  • Action III: Discursive Meta-Activity

1.3  Philosophical Definitions of Action

  • The Commonsense Concept of Action
  • Analytical Definitions of Activity and Action
  • Transcendental Definitions of Action
  • The Constructivist Concept of Action
  • Hegel: The Philosophical Value of Aesthetic Action
  • Conclusions

1.4  The Elements of the Action Construct

  • Lotman's Definition of the Event
  • Structuralist Approaches: Event, Transformation, Move
  • The Event as a Modal Change of State
  • The Event as a Construct of Reception
  • Event, Property and Matter
  • Conditions of an EVENT
  • Class-Homogenous EVENTS
  • Class-Heterogenous EVENTS
  • The Status of the Translation Rule
  • World Knowledge and the EVENT
  • Constructing events: An Example
  • MATTER and FOCUS
  • STATE OF AFFAIRS and OBJECT
  • Constructing an object EVENT
  • Constructing a discourse EVENT
  • The EVENT  Matrix
  • The Referential Nature of the EVENT
  • Definitions of the Episode
  • The Formal Definition of the Episode
  • The Semiotic Square: A Reappraisal
  • The EPISODE: From Semiotic to Episodic Square
  • The EPISODE as a Three-dimensional Construct

 

Part 2 The Computer-Aided Analysis of Narrated Action                    

2.1  Narratology and Literary Computing

  • Narratology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • The Limits of Practical Implementation

2.2  The EventParser Program

2.3  Constructing episodes and actions

  • The Syntagmatic Link
  • The Ontic Link
  • The Semantic Link
  • Closure
  • The episode Matrix

2.4  The EpiTest Program

2.5  Action Potential and action Product

2.6  Practical Analysis Using EpiTest

 

Part 3 An Experiment in Action: Conversations of German Refugees 

3.1  Critical Approaches to the Conversations

  • The Compositional Logic of Goethe's Conversations
  • Philosophical Discourses in Goethe's Conversations

3.2  Describing the Conversations

  • The Isochronous Constructs
  • The Isochronous and Anisochronous Constructs

3.3  Explaining the Conversations

  • Goethe and the Unfathomability of the Weltbegebenheiten
  • The Logic of ACTION in the Conversations

3.4  Conclusion

Url de référence :
http://www.jcmeister.de/html/computing-action1.html#toc1

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