Role of Attribution Modelling in the Analysis of Codified Narrative

In this blog, I will be discussing the use of attribution models in relation to codified narrative. For this purpose, I will be referring to the plots of two films: the 1974 horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"; and a 2014 dark comedy called "Tusk." I have my own codification system called BERLIN: this is short for "Behavioural Event Reconstruction Linguistic Interface for Narratives." An attribution model supports the inference of meaning from data. Imagine a student one day going to an introductory statistics class and noticing all of the other students clearing their desks. He asks nervously, "Hey, what's going on? The student closest to him replies, "Yeah, there's an exam." "An exam - you mean right now!