In most fields of study, language is thought of principally in terms of the written word, for it is in this form that we usually make permanent records of important ideas. Relatively little attention is spared for something as fleeting and unremarkable as spoken conversation. In linguistics, however, speech, rather than writing, is regarded as more central to human language, for several reasons...

nathaniel hawthorne's art of writing marks a specific point in the history of american literature. the revolution brought with it libertine outcomes from adherence to strict puritanical creeds of life. a little later, romanticism intensified this break even further by glorifying the individuality of the author and his role in creating a novel american voice. writing within such context, on...

Many years ago, before the age of the internet, I picked up a collection of short stories called A Month of Mystery, edited by the film director Alfred Hitchcock. Most of the stories were humdrum, but one of them struck me as a masterpiece. It was by an American writer from the early 20th century named Melville Davisson Post. Although I never came across his writing again, his name stuck in my ...

ibn abi sadiq neishaboori  was the iranian philosopher and medical scientist in the fifth century ah. in addition to writing a number of books in traditional medicine, he wrote commentary explanations on important books of famous greek and roman physicians, hippocrates and galen. because of this, he was called hippocrates the second.ibn abi sadiqwas the student of avicennaand the teacher of jor...

How the COVID-19 pandemic, and deaths that occurred during acute phase of pandemic (2020–2021), will be remembered is yet to determined. Writing from a UK perspective, this short article reflects on way in which memory, narratives death are constructed, contested (re)produced. Drawing authors’ respective sociological sub-fields, it makes case for an ongoing appraisal emergent narratives, can en...

Richard Feynman is generally regarded as one of the fathers of nanotechnology. In giving his landmark presentation to the American Physical Society on December 29, 1959, at Caltech, his title line was, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” At that time, Feynman extended an invitation for “manipulating and controlling things on a small scale, thereby entering a new field of physics which wa...

In Hungarian variants of some fairy tale types (especially ATU 315, 707, 725) the operation of a peculiar dream narrative can be observed: the characters use an embedded dream narrative to communicate information. The agent of knowledge conveys information to a mediating person and in doing so (s)he also governs that when the mediator conveys information to the actual addressee (recipient), the...

The lecturer’s dilemma Iain, a psychology lecturer, became interested in the role of writing in his students’ learning for ‘selfish reasons’. When reading his students’ writing, Iain found it difficult to distinguish between their understanding of the subject matter and their expression of ideas and arguments. This problem drove him to investigate how to improve his students’ academic writing a...

Throughout STFM's 25th anniversary year, we illustrated the dynamic history of family medicine using the personal narratives of some of the discipline's founders and early leaders. We have attempted to take the energy of their spoken words and put it on paper for clinician educators to learn from and lead by. For us, as authors, this process has been enriching and has caused us to reexamine and...