Narrative features of the life stories of child abuse survivors and nonvictimized respondents were compared. Particular emphasis was placed on relatively "objective" features, given that the content of the narrative typically precluded blind coding. The research focused on both the relative emphasis on the past versus present and future and on the self versus others in respondents' stories. The...

In the past decade, language memoirs, linguistic autobiographies, and learners’ journals and diaries have become a popular means of data collection in applied linguistics. It is not always clear however how one should go about analyzing these data. The aim of this paper is to offer a critical review of analytical frameworks applied to second language users’ personal narratives. I discuss the st...

This essay examines personal narratives and gender-sensitive fictional representations of the Partition between India and Pakistan to contribute to a counterhistory that takes centrally into account the ways in which nation formation was written on the bodies of women. The juxtaposition of my mother’s stories, the oral histories gathered by feminist historiographers, and critical analyses of Pa...

Our memories can be accurate, but they are not always accurate. Eyewitness testimony, for example, is notoriously unreliable. Insights into both veridical and false remembering have come from recent investigations of memory distortion. Behavioral measures have been used to demonstrate false memory phenomena in the laboratory, and neuroimaging measures have been used to provide clues about the r...

This article introduces, and attempts to define, the concept of 'media templates'. Drawing on focus groups discussions, content analysis and interviews with media personnel I demonstrate how template events help to shape news narratives and guide thinking not only about the past, but also of the present and the future. The argument is illustrated by examining the position of 'the Cleveland scan...

This paper seeks to clarify the confusion created by simultaneous use of non-equivalent policy discourses about biofuels within EU and addresses inconsistency between long-term goals short-term targets. To this purpose, a novel approach, quantitative storytelling, is employed examine plausibility current narratives. It confronts data on production at member-state (the Netherlands) level against...

The present investigation presents a stochastic model for a flexible manufacturing system consisting of flexible machine, loading/unloading robot and an automated pallethandling device. We consider unreliable flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) wherein machine and robot operate under individual as well as common cause random failures. The pallethandling system is completely reliable. The pallet o...

Narratives abound concerning the religious and political positioning of Jerusalem in the past as well as the present and have been used in a variety of ways to serve various ideologies or political ends. One such narrative (which can be found even in some academic treatises of the history of Jerusalem) states that following the Muslim re-conquest of the city after the Crusades Muslim rulers neg...

We are now witnessing a radical revival in clinical research on the use of psychedelics (e.g. LSD and psilocybin), where ‘mystical’ experiences at centre. Drawing in-depth interviews with 50 psychedelic drug users, we document how they draw archetypical mystical narratives, comprising three key dimensions: (1) transcendence time space; (2) deep euphoria; (3) perception being one ‘a larger whole...

For Markov chains with a finite, partially ordered state space, we show strong stationary duality under the condition of Möbius monotonicity of the chain. We give examples of dual chains in this context which have no downwards transitions. We illustrate general theory by an analysis of nonsymmetric random walks on the cube with an interpretation for unreliable networks of queues.