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The Coherence of Visual Narratives

Communication Research, 1991
Memory for visual narratives was examined as a function of cinematic structure. Four visual narratives were constructed, with each narrative taking place within a single location and presenting an interaction between two main characters. Two separate experiments examined the influence of establishing shots and directional continuity on subjects' memory
ROBERT N. KRAFT, PHILLIP CANTOR, CHARLES GOTTDIENER   +2 more
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Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories

The Sociological Quarterly, 1997
While the sociological analysis of personal stories is becoming more sophisticated, it would benefit from a refined appreciation for narrative practice. The theme of this article is that the coherence of stories and the experiences they convey are reflexively related to the manifold activities and the increasingly diverse conditions of storytelling ...
Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein
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Emergence, Coherence, and Narrative

2011
The Tripod case narrates complexity and difference. The story of the tag line reveals multiplicity in community and analysis. There were multiple emergences: of internet tools, of communities, of profitability, of interpretation. Some of these emergences seem to have been unsustainable, conflict ridden, and perhaps even (self-)destructive.
Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz   +2 more
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Coherent narrative summarization with a cognitive model

Computer Speech & Language, 2016
Borrowing theories from cognitive psychology, we propose a computational model of human cognition.Using the cognitive model, we generate coherent narrative summaries.We propose a novel method of proposition-level extractive summarization.We verify the cognitive model and summarization method with narrative text data.
Renxian Zhang, Wenjie Li 0002, Naishi Liu, Dehong Gao   +3 more
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Coherence in Narrative Art

1985
Attention to the structure of narrative art begins with Aristotle from whosePoetics we earlier took a long quotation (Chapter 4). It would be superfluous to repeat the commonplaces of extant theories about plot, and it is equally unnecessary to offer an alternative to them.
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Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives

Journal of Research in Personality, 2007
Abstract The stories people construct about themselves and their social worlds are key aspects of their identities [Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of meaning . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; McAdams, D. P. (2001). The psychology of life stories. Review of General Psychology , 5 , 100–122].
Jonathan M. Adler, Joshua W. Wagner, Dan P. McAdams   +2 more
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The Narrative Coherence Standard and the Dangers of Excessive Paternalism

AJOB Neuroscience, 2020
While finding an unbiased method for determining mental capacity is an important goal, the Narrative Coherence Standard (NCS) must be further specified before it can be safely employed.
C D, Brewer, Kailie S, Zampino
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Recognizing Coherent Narrative Blog Content

2016
Interactive storytelling applications have at their disposal massive numbers of human-authored stories, in the form of narrative weblog posts, from which story content could be harvested and repurposed. Such repurposing is currently inhibited, however, in that many blog narratives are not sufficiently coherent for use in these applications.
James Owen Ryan, Reid Swanson
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Coherence in Children's Written Narratives

Written Communication, 1989
This study uses de Beaugrande's (1980) concept analysis system to analyze a group of children's written narratives. In addition to ascertaining the potential of this system as a means of assessing coherence, the purpose of this study was to describe how 20 third graders employed narrative concepts at the local and global levels.
JOANNE M. GOLDEN, CAROL VUKELICH
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Pregnancy and suicide: towards a coherent narrative

The Lancet Psychiatry, 2014
The perennial interest in the complex association between pregnancy and suicide is partly fuelled by frequent high-profile media reports about suicide--infanticides in postpartum mothers. However, decades of research on the issue have not produced a coherent narrative.
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