LINGUIST List 15.3293

Tue Nov 23 2004

Software: Storybase - A Dictionary of Narrative Situations

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1. Wylie Sawyer, Storybase - A Dictionary of Narrative Situations

Message 1: Storybase - A Dictionary of Narrative Situations

Date: 12-Nov-2004
From: Wylie Sawyer <diceymatters

yahoo.com>
Subject: Storybase - A Dictionary of Narrative Situations

Storybase is an interesting attept at indexing narrative situations.  It is
comprised of over 2,000 unique narrative primitives that have been written
(in English) without gender pronouns and without culture-specific
references.  Thus Storybase represents a common human denominator.

The primitives have been indexed according to the mindset, or mental state
of the 'characters' and the thrust, or action of the situations.  'Mindset'
and 'Thrust' appear to be an attempt at achieving a synthesis of objective
and subjective viewpoints.

Available only for Windows based machines, more information can be seen at
www.storybase.net ;

Linguistic Field(s):
Anthropological Linguistics,
Discourse Analysis,
Ling & Literature,
Psycholinguistics,
Semantics
Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: ENG)
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