Short narratives and folktale variation in Greek folk culture

Folk Psychological Narratives (Preface)

Crossing Boundaries: the Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Folk Narratives

It is one of the paradoxes of folk narrative research that the t r ans l a t ion and the t r a n s c u l t u r a l adap ta t ionof folklore texts have received so Httle attention so far. This lack of scholarly interest is surprising insofar äs folkloristics and ethnology, from their beginnings in the late 18th Century, had a keen interest in o ther cultures — and they bcgan with translations. I...

Narratives in Cypriot Greek mono- and bilingual children with SLI

Narrative ability is one of the most promising ways to assess communicative competence in children: Coordination of lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, and pragmatic elements is needed to produce narrations. Narratives might even serve as a diagnostic tool for Specific Language Impairment, since children with Specific Language Impairment are reported to have difficulties producing (oral) na...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...