Annotation Guideline No. 7 (revised): Guidelines for annotation of narrative structure

Analysis of narrative structure can be said to answer the question “Who tells what, and how?”. The key part of our annotation scheme is related to the “who?”, and to this end we distinguish between narration and fictional dialogue. Furthermore, with respect to the latter we keep track of turns, line...

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Published in:Journal of Cultural Analytics 2021, Vol.6 (4), p.164
Main Authors: Wirén, Mats, Ek, Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
annotation
Linguistics
lingvistik
literary computing
narratology
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Summary:Analysis of narrative structure can be said to answer the question “Who tells what, and how?”. The key part of our annotation scheme is related to the “who?”, and to this end we distinguish between narration and fictional dialogue. Furthermore, with respect to the latter we keep track of turns, lines, identities of speakers and addressees, and speech-framing constructions, which provide the narrator’s cues about the circumstances of the speech. We also annotate voice, that is, whether the narrator is ever present in the story or not. Our annotation of the “what?” includes embeddings of narrative transmission levels to capture stories in stories, and embeddings of fictional dialogue to capture characters quoting other characters. Our annotation of the “how?” includes focalization, that is, the perspective from which the narrative is seen and how much information the narrator has access to.
ISSN:2371-4549
2371-4549
DOI:10.22148/001c.30703