Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

the purpose of this article is to show the creation of sense and the relation between reflection and narrative function in the novel “stranger” by albert camus. while studying the structure of this narration, we try to surpass the surface and penetrate the deepest layers of the text, in order to find, not only the meaningful surface structures but also the ones beyond the text. as a reason, we ...

this article is an attempt to explore the subject of divorcee in narrative and visual content of iranian cinema. therefore, by applying constructionist approach in representation theory of stuart hall as the main theoretical framework and using roland barthes’ structural analysis of narrative and john fiske’s semiotic analysis in three levels of reality codes, representation and ideology, ester...

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

in a structural analysis, the “rebellion & decline” theme creates a narrative structure in which eleven stories of shāhnāmeh – equal to 3.18 per cent of the whole epic – are included, which makes it the tenth largest sequence of the shāhnāmeh. this narrative structure (sequence) consists of initial tranquillity, the king’s rebellion, his decline, and ultimate tranquillity. the epical theme of r...