The dark side of tellability

By Neal R. Norrick. 2005

122 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Philosophy

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1. Albert Gatt
2. Emiel Krahmer
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1. Albert Gatt
2. Emiel Krahmer
3. W. Labov

Citations in the corpus

• Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation (2017, methodology): “This was achieved by training a kernel-based classifier on shallow lexical and syntactic features of stories, a novel take on an old problem in narratology, namely, what makes a story ‘tellable’, thereby distinguishing it from a mere report (e.g., Herman, 1997; Norrick, 2005; Bruner, 2011).”
• Narrative pre-construction (2006, background): “…is a great deal to be said about the concept of reportability for any given event, and its relativity to age and social context (Fludernik 1996, Norrick 2005), but the very concept of narrative demands that we recognize as an essential first step the decision to report an event, and the…”