Narrative Models of Action and Interaction*
Open Access
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Cognitive Science
- Vol. 3 (1) , 43-66
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0301_3
Abstract
This paper explores some issues which a humanlike story system ought to encompass, but which are usually not in the main focus of narrative models since Propp. We argue that knowledge about actions and interactions can account not only for how stories are constructed, but also for why some stories are more interesting and enduring than others. We analyze a traditional English folktale in these terms, and show how classes of surface expressions make recoverable the underlying structures and dependencies that schema-based understanders comprise.Keywords
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