Tale Variants and Analysis in Episodic Formulae: Early Ottoman, Elizabethan, and “Solomonic” Versions

Nissan, Ephraim

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45324-3_9

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“…We are going to represents part of the narrative of the foundation of the Ecco publishing house by resorting to a mathematical formalism, episodic formulae (Nissan 2001(Nissan , 2002(Nissan , 2003a(Nissan , 2003b(Nissan , 2003c(Nissan , 2003d(Nissan , 2007(Nissan , 2008a(Nissan 2008b(Nissan , 2008(Nissan [2009(Nissan ], 2012(Nissan , 2014Nissan et al 2004). Temporal relations include: In an article of mine, "A Formalism for Misapprehended Identities: Taking a Leaf Out of Pirandello" (Nissan 2002), in which I already introduced most of the present notation and more, I was concerned with representing the deluded beliefs about his identity, entertained by the protagonist of a tragedy by Luigi Pirandello.…”

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A naming situation captured in episodic formulae: how a publisher accepted his funder’s suggestion as to how to name his small press (and later found out the Italian word had been the name of a little dog that ketchup heiress used to have)

Nissan¹

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”.

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Episodic formulae are a representational technique that emerged from artificial intelligence in order to capture the gist of situations and epistemic states in a narrative plot. Arguably, this formalism can be applied as well to complex situations of name-bestowing and evolving perceptions of the name adopted. In the situation we analyse with epistemic formulae in this paper, the Manhattan entrepreneur who had launched a literary magazine and then found a very affluent funder for also starting a book operation, expectably felt obliged to accept her suggestion of a name for his firm. At the time, in New York City he could be expected to find out easily that the name Ecco was the Italian adverb ecco for ‘here is…’ or ‘here you go’ and so forth. Eventually, he found out that the ketchup heiress who funded him had suggested to him the name of her beloved little dog that she once owned. This time, it was private knowledge, rather than available knowledge. One can figure out (from general patterns of how people feel or behave) that she wanted a memorial for her dog, and the publisher could be expected to have made sense of that once aware, but it also brought to the fore how their balance of power affected what she could afford vis-à-vis him. The set of formulae shown here illustrates the potential for onomastic research to develop a rigorous representation for situational constellations of name-bestowing and bearing a name that thus far it could explain just informally in narrative form.

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Section: The Basics Of Episodic Formulaementioning

confidence: 99%

A naming situation captured in episodic formulae: how a publisher accepted his funder’s suggestion as to how to name his small press (and later found out the Italian word had been the name of a little dog that ketchup heiress used to have)

Nissan¹

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”.

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On Chance, Causality, Agency, Volition, and Communication: The Case of the Subversive Parrot of Sfakion

Nissan

2014

Language, Culture, Computation. Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives

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A Quarter of Century in Artificial Intelligence and Law: Projects, Personal Trajectories, a Subjective Perspective

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Asaro²,

Dragoni

et al. 2014

Language, Culture, Computation. Computing of the Humanities, Law, and Narratives

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Tale Variants and Analysis in Episodic Formulae: Early Ottoman, Elizabethan, and “Solomonic” Versions

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

A naming situation captured in episodic formulae: how a publisher accepted his funder’s suggestion as to how to name his small press (and later found out the Italian word had been the name of a little dog that ketchup heiress used to have)

A naming situation captured in episodic formulae: how a publisher accepted his funder’s suggestion as to how to name his small press (and later found out the Italian word had been the name of a little dog that ketchup heiress used to have)

On Chance, Causality, Agency, Volition, and Communication: The Case of the Subversive Parrot of Sfakion

A Quarter of Century in Artificial Intelligence and Law: Projects, Personal Trajectories, a Subjective Perspective

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