Acquisition of story-telling skills is an aspect of language development that is influenced by hearing parental story telling. Because discourse between parent and child is affected by the sex of both parent and child, we hypothesized that sex differences would affect parental story telling and children's acquisition of story-telling skills. For this study, 24 children (12 girls, 12 boys) told ...

This narrative study examined the process of personal storytelling between college-age friends who were similarly introverted or extraverted. Participants were 19 introverted and 20 extraverted same-sex pairs (49 percent female) who had been friends for an average of 18 months. Stories emerged spontaneously during 10-minute catch-up conversations. Extraverted friends more often told stories tha...

The media today bombards us with massive amounts of news about events ranging from the mundane to the memorable. This growing cacophony places an ever greater premium on being able to identify significant stories and to capture their salient features. In this paper, we consider the problem of mining on-line news over a certain period to identify what the major stories were in that time. Major s...

In this paper, we present Sam, an embodied conversational storyteller who tells stories interactively with children. Sam was designed to appear as a peer to preschool children, but to tell stories in a developmentally advanced way in order to model narrative skills important for literacy. Literacy learning learning how to read and write, begins long before children enter school. One of the key ...

BACKGROUND The rapid growth of eHealth could have the unintended effect of deepening health disparities between population subgroups. Most concerns to date have focused on population differences in access to technology, but differences may also exist in the appropriateness of online health content for diverse populations. OBJECTIVE This paper reports findings from the first descriptive study ...

This paper focuses on personal (experience) storytelling in Modern Greek, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the culture. Using as its data a corpus of naturally occurring stories in companies of intimates as well as a corpus of adults’ stories for children, the study presents their major evaluative resources. The aim of the discussion is to look into the co...

The Sami are an indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Historically, national states have made strong efforts to assimilate the Sami people into the majority populations, and the Sami have experienced stigmatization and discrimination. However, after World War II, there has been a revitalization process among the Sami that was pioneered by the Sami Movement and gradual...

Fifty-five word stories are brief pieces of creative writing that use elements of poetry, prose, or both to encapsulate key experiences in health care. These stories have appeared in Family Medicine and JAMA and have been used to teach family medicine faculty development fellows. Writers and readers of 55-word stories gain insight into key moments of the healing arts; the brevity of the pieces ...

A 20 century German Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig promoted a new approach to knowledge, an approach in which in addition to logical reasoning, coming up with stories with imagined additional details is also important. This approach is known as midrashic since it is similar to the use of similar stories – known as midrashes – in Judaism. While stories can make the material interesting, tra...