Generating narratives from simple action structures

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ID10142497
AuthorsJ Skvoretz (0000-0003-0573-1710, University of South Carolina, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume18
Issue2-3
Pages135-140
Publication date1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Mathematical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-250X • E-ISSN: 1545-5874
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0022250x.1993.9990120
OpenAlexW2031703019
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Narrative analysis is applied to episodes of interaction generated by coupled production systems controlling the activity of different processing units. Formal analysis of such coupled systems, conceived of as models of institutionalized social action, has shown that they generate context‐free languages of interaction. This note suggests that narrative analysis of interaction strings in such languages has limited analytical utility: it offers neither a method to discriminate between well‐formed and malformed strings of interaction nor a procedure to induce the underlying generative rule structure from a corpus of well‐formed interaction strings. Therefore, the narrative method holds little promise as a technique to examine the routinized activity composing a social institution

Action (physics · Archaeology · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Narrative · Natural language processing · Simple (philosophy · Social relation · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Management and Organizational Studies · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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