Thomas Koppe
Biographic Data
| ID | 81941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Koppe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Koppe |
| SIGNATURE | KOPPE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Greifswald |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7923-5432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: Narrative Suspense Depends on Potentially Inquiry-Terminating Questions
Suspense is an important aspect of cognitive-emotional narrative text comprehension. We adopt a text-centered, linguistic approach, investigating how the information structure of a narrative text as modeled by its erotetic structure instigates suspense. We report on two studies that reveal a strong correlation between the presence of what we term ‘potentially inquiry-terminating questions’ (PITQs) and the level of experienced suspense. PITQs are …
What Is Narrative Suspense? Evidence from Production Studies
Suspense is an important aesthetic feature of narrative media across different genres. Literary theory is concerned with elucidating the concept of suspense as applied to narrative literature. If literary theory wants to keep in touch with ordinary usage of the term ›suspense‹, then it must rely on an audience’s ability to judge scenes in narratives as to their suspensefulness. But how do we find out how someone understands the very concept of su…
The nearly missed account of narrative suspense
In this paper, we specify features of a narrative that are responsible for its suspensefulness. Taking Noël Carroll’s account of erotetic narrative as our point of departure, we argue that a narrative is experienced as suspenseful because it gives rise to so-called potentially inquiry terminating questions. Such questions suggest to readers that they are just about to get the information they are reading for. Due to this highly specific erotetic …
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
On the alethic and moral status of political storytelling
The article reconstructs the theory of political storytelling as outlined by political strategist Mark McKinnon. Stories that conform to this theory feature a suspense structure, and as such they invoke hope and fear in recipients, thereby instilling pro- or contra-attitudes. This is potentially problematic in four respects: Political storytelling (1) can be used to induce attitude-change without a rational foundation, thereby infringing on the r…
Annotating Narrative Levels: Review of Guideline No. 2
In this brief review, I will assess the theoretical soundness of the categories as explained in the “SANTA 2 Annotation Guidelines” as well as the practical implementation of the theory through exemplary annotation choices
Daris R. Swindler (1925-2007)
Two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization
The paper discusses two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization. According to the first approach, the three types of focalization are defined in terms of a relation of a character’s knowledge to the narrator’s report. We argue that the definitions based on this approach are seriously flawed. According to the second approach, whether a narrative is internally, externally or zero-focalized depends on how the information tha…
Sinuses and flotation: Does the aquatic ape theory hold water
The idea that people went through an aquatic phase at some time in their evolutionary past is currently undergoing a popular resurgence (see Foley & Lahr ). This idea has even started to gain some traction in more learned circles; the late paleoanthropologist Phillip Tobias wrote in support of aspects of it in an edited e‐book and a conference on the topic held recently in London was endorsed by celebrities such as the television presenter Sir Da…
Neuere Literaturtheorien
Handwerkszeug für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler. Von Studenten wird verlangt, dass sie theoretische Positionen erkennen, Interpretationsmethoden unterscheiden und in eigenen Analysen anwenden. Dabei hilft das Lehrbuch, indem es alle wichtigen Theorien seit den 1980er Jahren systematisch vorstellt. Darunter: Diskursanalyse, Dekonstruktion, Gender und Cultural Studies sowie medienwissenschaftliche Ansätze. Beispielinterpretationen bieten zus…
Hyperpneumatized Neanderthals? Reply to Holton et al. (2011)
The Neanderthal face is not cold adapted
Reappraisal of Macaca speciosa subfossilis from the Late Pleistocene of Northern Vietnam Based on the Analysis of Cranial Anatomy
Neuere Literaturtheorien
Handwerkszeug für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler. Von Studenten wird verlangt, dass sie theoretische Positionen erkennen, Interpretationsmethoden unterscheiden und in eigenen Analysen anwenden. Dabei hilft das Lehrbuch, indem es alle wichtigen Theorien seit den 1980er Jahren systematisch vorstellt. Darunter: Diskursanalyse, Dekonstruktion, Gender und Cultural Studies sowie medienwissenschaftliche Ansätze. Beispielinterpretationen bieten zus…
Maxillary sinus atelectasis in a wild born gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
Holes in the head: Evolutionary interpretations of the paranasal sinuses in catarrhines
Everyone who has ever experienced a head cold is familiar with the paranasal sinuses, the bony hollows above and beside the nasal cavity that contribute, sometimes painfully, to upper respiratory tract disorders. These internal cranial structures have a wide distribution among eutherian mammals and archosaurs. 1 , 2 Sinuses have languished somewhat in the shadow of their better known and more accessible morphological cousins (dentition, postcrani…
Clinal variation of maxillary sinus volume in Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata )
Macaques (genus Macaca ) are unique among cercopithecids in that they possess a maxillary sinus, and among anthropoids in that they demonstrate a relatively weak relationship between the size of this sinus and the cranium. To test the hypothesis that extrinsic factors may contribute to maxillary sinus size variation, a sample of 46 Japanese macaque ( M. fuscata ) crania from known localities were subjected to computed tomography (CT) imaging, and…
Ancestral loss of the maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys and independent acquisition in Macaca
Cercopithecoid monkeys are unique among primates in that all species (except macaques) lack a maxillary sinus, an unusual condition among eutherian mammals. Although this uncommon distribution of cranial pneumatization was noted previously, the phylogenetic ramifications have not been investigated fully. Recently, character state optimization analysis of computed tomography (CT) data from extant Old World monkeys suggested that the loss of the si…
Isometric scaling of maxillary sinus volume in hominoids
The Pneumatization of the Facial Skeleton in the Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata). A Study Based on Computerized Three-Dimensional Reconstructions: A Study Based on Computerized Three-Dimensional Rec…
Computerized three-dimensional images derived from coronal CT scan series of 10 adult skulls from Macaca fuscata of both sexes served to evaluate the paranasal sinuses. The maxillary sinus was found as the only paranasal sinus of the Japanese macaque. The hemispherical or kidney shaped maxillary sinus was almost restricted to the body of the maxilla. The maxillary sinus volume amounted to 0.88cm3, with a bigger sinus in male than in female skulls…
The Neanderthal face is not cold adapted
Isometric scaling of maxillary sinus volume in hominoids
Ancestral loss of the maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys and independent acquisition in Macaca
Cercopithecoid monkeys are unique among primates in that all species (except macaques) lack a maxillary sinus, an unusual condition among eutherian mammals. Although this uncommon distribution of cranial pneumatization was noted previously, the phylogenetic ramifications have not been investigated fully. Recently, character state optimization analysis of computed tomography (CT) data from extant Old World monkeys suggested that the loss of the si…
Reappraisal of Macaca speciosa subfossilis from the Late Pleistocene of Northern Vietnam Based on the Analysis of Cranial Anatomy
Two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization
The paper discusses two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization. According to the first approach, the three types of focalization are defined in terms of a relation of a character’s knowledge to the narrator’s report. We argue that the definitions based on this approach are seriously flawed. According to the second approach, whether a narrative is internally, externally or zero-focalized depends on how the information tha…
The Pneumatization of the Facial Skeleton in the Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata). A Study Based on Computerized Three-Dimensional Reconstructions: A Study Based on Computerized Three-Dimensional Rec…
Computerized three-dimensional images derived from coronal CT scan series of 10 adult skulls from Macaca fuscata of both sexes served to evaluate the paranasal sinuses. The maxillary sinus was found as the only paranasal sinus of the Japanese macaque. The hemispherical or kidney shaped maxillary sinus was almost restricted to the body of the maxilla. The maxillary sinus volume amounted to 0.88cm3, with a bigger sinus in male than in female skulls…
Isometric scaling of maxillary sinus volume in hominoids
Ancestral loss of the maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys and independent acquisition in Macaca
Cercopithecoid monkeys are unique among primates in that all species (except macaques) lack a maxillary sinus, an unusual condition among eutherian mammals. Although this uncommon distribution of cranial pneumatization was noted previously, the phylogenetic ramifications have not been investigated fully. Recently, character state optimization analysis of computed tomography (CT) data from extant Old World monkeys suggested that the loss of the si…
Clinal variation of maxillary sinus volume in Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata )
Macaques (genus Macaca ) are unique among cercopithecids in that they possess a maxillary sinus, and among anthropoids in that they demonstrate a relatively weak relationship between the size of this sinus and the cranium. To test the hypothesis that extrinsic factors may contribute to maxillary sinus size variation, a sample of 46 Japanese macaque ( M. fuscata ) crania from known localities were subjected to computed tomography (CT) imaging, and…
Holes in the head: Evolutionary interpretations of the paranasal sinuses in catarrhines
Everyone who has ever experienced a head cold is familiar with the paranasal sinuses, the bony hollows above and beside the nasal cavity that contribute, sometimes painfully, to upper respiratory tract disorders. These internal cranial structures have a wide distribution among eutherian mammals and archosaurs. 1 , 2 Sinuses have languished somewhat in the shadow of their better known and more accessible morphological cousins (dentition, postcrani…
Maxillary sinus atelectasis in a wild born gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
Neuere Literaturtheorien
Handwerkszeug für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler. Von Studenten wird verlangt, dass sie theoretische Positionen erkennen, Interpretationsmethoden unterscheiden und in eigenen Analysen anwenden. Dabei hilft das Lehrbuch, indem es alle wichtigen Theorien seit den 1980er Jahren systematisch vorstellt. Darunter: Diskursanalyse, Dekonstruktion, Gender und Cultural Studies sowie medienwissenschaftliche Ansätze. Beispielinterpretationen bieten zus…
Reappraisal of Macaca speciosa subfossilis from the Late Pleistocene of Northern Vietnam Based on the Analysis of Cranial Anatomy
Hyperpneumatized Neanderthals? Reply to Holton et al. (2011)
The Neanderthal face is not cold adapted
Neuere Literaturtheorien
Handwerkszeug für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler. Von Studenten wird verlangt, dass sie theoretische Positionen erkennen, Interpretationsmethoden unterscheiden und in eigenen Analysen anwenden. Dabei hilft das Lehrbuch, indem es alle wichtigen Theorien seit den 1980er Jahren systematisch vorstellt. Darunter: Diskursanalyse, Dekonstruktion, Gender und Cultural Studies sowie medienwissenschaftliche Ansätze. Beispielinterpretationen bieten zus…
Sinuses and flotation: Does the aquatic ape theory hold water
The idea that people went through an aquatic phase at some time in their evolutionary past is currently undergoing a popular resurgence (see Foley & Lahr ). This idea has even started to gain some traction in more learned circles; the late paleoanthropologist Phillip Tobias wrote in support of aspects of it in an edited e‐book and a conference on the topic held recently in London was endorsed by celebrities such as the television presenter Sir Da…
Two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization
The paper discusses two approaches to defining internal, external, and zero-focalization. According to the first approach, the three types of focalization are defined in terms of a relation of a character’s knowledge to the narrator’s report. We argue that the definitions based on this approach are seriously flawed. According to the second approach, whether a narrative is internally, externally or zero-focalized depends on how the information tha…
Daris R. Swindler (1925-2007)
Annotating Narrative Levels: Review of Guideline No. 2
In this brief review, I will assess the theoretical soundness of the categories as explained in the “SANTA 2 Annotation Guidelines” as well as the practical implementation of the theory through exemplary annotation choices
On the alethic and moral status of political storytelling
The article reconstructs the theory of political storytelling as outlined by political strategist Mark McKinnon. Stories that conform to this theory feature a suspense structure, and as such they invoke hope and fear in recipients, thereby instilling pro- or contra-attitudes. This is potentially problematic in four respects: Political storytelling (1) can be used to induce attitude-change without a rational foundation, thereby infringing on the r…
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
The nearly missed account of narrative suspense
In this paper, we specify features of a narrative that are responsible for its suspensefulness. Taking Noël Carroll’s account of erotetic narrative as our point of departure, we argue that a narrative is experienced as suspenseful because it gives rise to so-called potentially inquiry terminating questions. Such questions suggest to readers that they are just about to get the information they are reading for. Due to this highly specific erotetic …
What Is Narrative Suspense? Evidence from Production Studies
Suspense is an important aesthetic feature of narrative media across different genres. Literary theory is concerned with elucidating the concept of suspense as applied to narrative literature. If literary theory wants to keep in touch with ordinary usage of the term ›suspense‹, then it must rely on an audience’s ability to judge scenes in narratives as to their suspensefulness. But how do we find out how someone understands the very concept of su…
The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: Narrative Suspense Depends on Potentially Inquiry-Terminating Questions
Suspense is an important aspect of cognitive-emotional narrative text comprehension. We adopt a text-centered, linguistic approach, investigating how the information structure of a narrative text as modeled by its erotetic structure instigates suspense. We report on two studies that reveal a strong correlation between the presence of what we term ‘potentially inquiry-terminating questions’ (PITQs) and the level of experienced suspense. PITQs are …
Biology (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Anatomy (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 works) · Evolutionary biology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (5 works) · Zoology (5 works)