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Formalizing Style in Personal Narratives

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Personal narratives are stories authors construct to make meaning of their experiences. Style, the distinctive way authors use language to express themselves, is fundamental to how these narratives convey subjective experiences. Yet there is a lack of a formal framework for systematically analyzing these stylistic choices. We present a novel approach that formalizes style in personal narratives as patterns in the linguistic choices authors make when communicating subjective experiences. Our framework integrates three domains: functional linguistics establishes language as a system of meaningful choices, computer science provides methods for automatically extracting and analyzing sequential patterns, and these patterns are linked to psychological observations. Using language models, we automatically extract linguistic features such as processes, participants, and circumstances. We apply our framework to hundreds of dream narratives, including a case study on a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. Analysis of his narratives uncovers distinctive patterns, particularly how verbal processes dominate over mental ones, illustrating the relationship between linguistic choices and psychological states.

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hal-05261564 , version 1 (16-09-2025)
hal-05261564 , version 2 (09-10-2025)
hal-05261564 , version 3 (10-10-2025)

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Gustave Cortal, Alain Finkel. Formalizing Style in Personal Narratives. EMNLP 2025 - Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2025, Suzhou, China. pp.7311-7326, ⟨10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.371⟩. ⟨hal-05261564v3⟩
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