Through written life stories of lone mothers, this article examines changes in lone motherhood in twentieth-century Finland. While the older life-story writers' narratives are clearly influenced by an 'ethos of survival' and the regulation of female sexuality, the younger writers relate their experiences with the help of scripts on gender equality and the psychological importance of 'good' pare...

INTRODUCTION Paper has been the dominating means for capturing and storing written language for several centuries. Recently, computers have been established in this domain at the same time offering a far wider range of features. This has led many to believe that the use of paper might be completely replaced by computers in the near future. Yet there is no empirical data supporting such a hypoth...

Research with autobiographical memories has distinguished between memory narratives of specific events and summaries of many events blended together. Depression has been associated with a reduced ability to retrieve and orally relate specific positive memories. This study explored the hedonic bias in memory through collection of written autobiographical memories from 90 nonclinical college stud...

We present an automated method for generating Answer Set Programs from narratives written in English and demonstrate how such a representation can be used to answer questions about text. The proposed approach relies on a transparent interface between the syntax and semantics of natural language provided by Combinatory Categorial Grammars to translate text into Answer Set Programs, hence creatin...

Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

This article presents the affinity existing between the female dream narrative and the fairy tale genre. Although a large body of material has already been written about the connection between fairy tales and dreams, it has never been examined empirically using the tools and methods with which fairy tales have been studied. This article focuses on one dream narrative, documented in the framewor...

The prevalence of temporal references across all types of natural language utterances makes temporal analysis a key issue in Natural Language Processing. This work adresses three research questions: 1/is temporal expression recognition specific to a particular domain? 2/if so, can we characterize domain specificity? and 3/how can subdomain specificity be integrated in a single tool for unified ...

In her article "The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Turkish Women's Narratives" Adile Aslan analyzes the figure of the woman intellectual in two of the most widely praised novels written in Turkish, Adalet A!ao!lu's 1971 Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Leyla Erbil's 1985 Karanlı!ın Günü (The Day of Darkness). Aslan discusses how the two authors represent in their texts intertwine...

As a student new to the study of philosophy, I found the reading of writings such as those by MerleauPonty, Husserl and Heidegger to be complex. Fortunately, through narrative writings, I was able to explore these ways of thinking, being and knowing in my doctoral programme. Our Philosophy of Nursing Science course was structured with a robust reading list, Socratic discussion of philosophical ...

narratives provide a structured medium to construct and collect human experiences into a sequential word order. the current qualitative study employs the method of narrative analysis to investigate such twenty-five narratives belonging to the pakistani context, obtained from the collection of narratives archived on ‘the humans of new york’ (2015) blog. labov’s natural narrative model (1972) has...