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Tom Clark is developing a comparative research project to examine improvised and semi-improvised public language in the fields of sport, politics, business, and satire.
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Towards a Poetics of Contemporary Public Rhetoric: The Performer's Need for Platitude and Cliche | |||
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This paper adopts methods from oral-formulaic poetry scholarship to assessing the role of platitude and cliché in performing contemporary public rhetoric. |
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| Towards a Formulaic Poetics of Contemporary Public Rhetoric: The Interpretative Processing of Platitude and Cliche | |||
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This paper examines the use of rhetorical formulas as an interpretative tool for audiences listening to public language. |
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| Towards a Formulaic Poetics of Contemporary Public Rhetoric: A Politician’s Prosody | |||
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This paper analyses the rhetoric of politics, paying close attention to prosody or elements of versification in written and spoken language. |
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| Humour Theory and Conversational Agents: An Application in the Development of Computer-based Agents | |||
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This paper surveys a range of humour theories in search of a theory that can be applied to the interactions of computer-based conversational agents. |
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| Polity and Poetics: Strategic Uses of the Poem in Public Language | |||
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Public language occasionally resorts to verse to convey its meanings. This paper explores how these poetic turns reflect on the poetics of public language itself. |
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| Scripting Humour in Conversational Agents: Improvisation and Emergence of Humorous Interchanges | |||
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This paper will explore the inter-related issues of scriptwriting, emergence, and improvisation in a new media environment. |
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| Chat-bot Humour: A Survey of Methodological Approaches for a Creative New Media Project | |||
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This paper surveys a range of methodological approaches to underpin a creative project that will develop a pair of online, computer-based conversational agents. |
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| Design Dramaturgy: A Case Study in New Media, Humor and Artificial Intelligence | |||
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This paper explores design dramaturgy through a case study of a creative PhD project that employs chatbots (artificial intelligence agents) to play the roles of "comedian" and "straight-man". |
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