Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is increasing. Sue and colleagues describe interpersonal racism as racial microaggressions: "routine" marginalizing indignities by White persons (WPs) toward BPs that contribute to health stress. In this narrative, e...

User-contributed content represents a valuable information source provided one can make sense of the large amounts of unstructured data. This work focusses on geospatial content and specifically on travelblogs. Users writing stories about their trips and related experiences effectively provide geospatial information albeit in narrative form. Identifying this geospatial aspect of the texts by me...

Memories in literary texts reveal past events which complete the itinerary of a character throughout the book. Whether they are exposed from the point of view of that character or from the perspective of the other characters joining the action, the memories bring novelties about the distant or the recent past to the actual action This explorative study intends to identify memories, with an ulte...

In his paper, "Vargas Llosa's La Ciudad y los perros and the European Novel of Adolescence," John Neubauer investigates Mario Vargas Llosa's 1962 novel about cadets in a military school located just outside of Lima, Peru. The life of a gang (the dogs) in the city and on the premises is described from constantly changing perspectives. Neubauer's article looks at Vargas Llosa's work in terms of f...

Narrative texts have been advocated as tools to tackle science learning challenges, and there is even the proposal of a “narrative effect” on learning. We believe it necessary examine previous evidence this effect, well characterize process through narrative more broadly. In article, we offer theoretical review drawing three frameworks, namely pedagogical aspects text learning, linguistic featu...

Augmenting formal medical knowledge is neither manually nor automatically straightforward. However, this process can benefit from rich information in narrative texts, such as scientific publications. Snomed-supervised relation extraction has been proposed as an approach for mining knowledge from texts in an unsupervised way. It can catch not only superclass/subclass relations but also existenti...

This article addresses two subjects relating to the topic of this issue Scandinavian Journal History from a ‘difference approach’ in narratology. means that we assume words like ‘narrative’ and ‘fiction’ are used denote different things it is important distinguish between these uses. We also narrative texts share similar surface structures can still ‘do’ approached differently by readers. The f...

Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In paper, it is argued that role merits further attention history descriptions. Thirteen texts, selected from a lower-secondary history-instructional unit about European colonization, ...

This chapter describes a study that investigates the potential value of using traditional fairy tales as reading material for English language learners (ELL). Using the computational textual analysis software, the Gramulator, the authors analyzed the linguistic features of fairy tales relative to a corpus of ELL reading material and a corpus of baseline educational texts for native English spea...

One of the most crucial problem areas of information science concerns the identification of what documents are 'about'. This paper seeks to define the notion of 'aboutness ' within the context of recent work in text linguistics. It describes, first, the essential communicational structures of sentences, paragraphs and texts in terms of theme, rheme and thematic progression, connectors of clause...