PURPOSE Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly because they tend to be better formed than fictional narratives. However, current practice in the field of speech-language pathology employs fictional narratives in assessment, intervention, and study of children wi...

Research has indicated that schizophrenia patients report similar amounts of experienced emotion in response to emotional material compared with nonpatients. However, less is known about how schizophrenia patients describe and make sense of their emotional life events. We adopted a narrative approach to investigate schizophrenia patients' renderings of their emotional life experiences. In Study...

Many people on both sides of the Atlantic are unaware of the glaring facts of the massive French involvement in the slave trade: that more slaves were brought to the tiny island of Martinique than to all the United States; that in 1789, Saint-Domingue supplied over half of France’s overseas trade and had a slave population of half a million, more than all the other French and British West Indie...

The Ottoman defeat of the British and French imperial forces during Gallipoli campaign 1915, known in Turkish as Çanakkale Wars, had already shown how theatres war would extend beyond Europe. While much poetry English that came from is well Anglophone world, less outside Turkey itself. This article analyses selected poems written both languages order to show they similar recourse overlapping na...

Drawing on the rich tradition of investigations into linguistic inequality, this paper seeks to define phenomenon pretextual gaps, i.e. socially anchored and often invisible differences between what is expected in communication people can bring deploy communication. Pretextual gaps refer conditions sayability, differential distribution access these conditions, social evaluations attached such d...

PURPOSE To verify the average time of silent pauses in narratives and the influence of story's complexity in the occurrence of these pauses in narratives of children with typical language development and children with specific language impairment (SLI), and further to compare these aspects between groups. METHODS Sixty children aged between seven to ten years took part in this research, being...

This work assesses what happened to liturgical objects from Icelandic churches and monastic houses during after the Lutheran Reformation, through an examination of written sources, such as inventories Visitation books, material evidence in museum collections archaeological excavations. The aim this is first, assess extent nature iconoclasm Iceland secondly re-examine traditional narratives Refo...

Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have been skeptical of using narratives, raising concerns about their lack of objectivity and potential for bias. They also have criticized narratives as being more performative than scientific. Recent authors, however...

BACKGROUND There are strong theoretical arguments for using narratives in teaching and learning within medicine, but little is known about how they are used in medical lectures. This study explores the types of narratives lecturers use, the attitudes of lecturers and students to the use of narratives in teaching, and the aspects of learning that narratives may facilitate. METHODS Observation ...

American publishers have published numerous children’s books about Barack Obama over the past several years; most take the form of informational biographies. This article reports on a research project aimed at how these books incorporate sociohistorical narratives, particularly those related to the civil rights movement. Though the features of the books might cause the reader to presume politic...