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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Narrative discourse"”.
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Modeling Narrative Discourse
… new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse. Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing techniques typically do not leverage the aspects that separate narrative from expository discourse. We describe two approaches to the …
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… assignment as seen in a written collection of narrative texts from Udi, a Caucasian language from the Lezgian family. This study explores the linguistic factors that affect reference assignment in Udi narrative in terms of participants, props and time and locative phrases.</p> <p>Reference …
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Participant reference in narrative discourse: A comparison of three methodologies
… of languages refer to activated participants in narrative discourse. One of the first of these was Talmy Givon, whose method (referred to by some as the Recency/Distance method) measured three factors in participant reference: referential distance, potential interference, and persistence. A few …
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Narrative discourse production in language impaired learning disabled young adolescents
… disabled young adolescents were explored using a narrative discourse analysis procedure. The purpose was to compare the narrative production abilities of language impaired learning disabled and non-learning disabled young adolescents on a number of measures: story length, amount of information, …
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Thomas Hardy's experiments in narrative discourse in five tragic novels
… writings on architectonic and dialogic modes of discourse in novels. Bakhtin uses the concept of architectonics to describe an author's struggle within a literary text to give artistic unity to his protagonist's experiences. Bakhtin's focus on the conflict between the discursive environment of an …
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Narrative discourse characteristics of South African Afrikaans speaking Cape Coloureds with aphasia
… persons without aphasia were explored using a narrative discourse analysis procedure. The aim of the study was to investigate the discourse characteristics of the Cape Afrikaans dialect in persons with and without mild to moderate aphasia. Furthermore the study aimed to establish the cultural …
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Organization of Narrative Discourse in Children and Adolescents with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury
… if qualitative differences exist among the narrative recall of TBI patients that is not adequately accounted for by standard scoring methods. Sixty-six TBI subjects ranging in age from 6 to 16 were given the Wide Range and Memory and Learning (WRAML) Story Memory subtest and selected …
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Narrative discourse in English speaking coloured persons with aphasia and normal controls in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study aimed to characterise the discourse performance of English speaking Coloured persons with mild to moderate aphasia and match controls. It ascertained whether various narrative discourse tasks resulted in differences in discourse performance between the two groups in the amount of …
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Narrative discourse in W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": An analysis of the interrelationships of narrators and narrative transmissions
… of this study is to provide an analysis of the narrative discourse of A Vision in which Yeats frames an intricate web of relationships between narrators and narrative transmissions. Yeats's narrator "pairs" function systematically within his primary and antithetical dichotomy which corresponds …
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The Narrative Performances of Teenage Girls: Participation, Identity, and Authority as the Foundation for Power
… explores the ways in which teenage girls use narrative performance to negotiate participation, social and gender identity, and individual authority in order to establish ratified and equal statuses of power within their social peer group. Although previous work on narrative discourse has shown …
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Influence of Examiner Dialect on a Bidialectal Speaker with Aphasia
… dialect on the quantity and quality of narrative discourse in a bidialectal African American with mild aphasia. We hypothesized that there may be a cognitive cost when responding to the examiner by code switching from African American English (AAE) to General American English (GAE) for …
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Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role
… It has been shown that the comprehensibility of narrative discourse (testimony) is a reliable indicator of its well-formedness (Thorndyke, 1977). This study aims to explore the relationships between comprehensibility (well-formedness) as a dependent variable, and magistrates' credibility …
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Production of conjunctions and T-units by the elderly
… of Halliday and Hasan (1976) in procedural and narrative discourse by the elderly. The hypothesis stated that the relationship between age and conjunctions produced would be non-significant. In a cross-sectional study, 17 subjects between the ages of 60-86 were interviewed and the transcripts …
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Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether
… shaped critical perceptions of African-American narrative discourse of this period. While critics have expected to find, in African-American novels of the 1960s and 1970s, a deep current of radicalism, and a clear commitment to identifiable models of resistance, the Harlem narratives of Chester …
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COGNITION, MODALITY, AND LANGUAGE IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
Measures drawn from language samples (e.g., discourse measures) are used in clinical and research settings as a functional measure of language and cognitive abilities. In narrative elicitation tasks, discourse measures reliably vary by the type of prompt used to collect a language sample. …
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
… the trajectory of the Turkish image in Western discourse between the 11th and 21st centuries. The discourse analysis focuses on the Western writings, speeches, sermons, and literary texts, including the Crusade rhetoric, Renaissance humanist discourse, Early Modern English drama, and Orientalist …
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The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance
… that continues to operate even when the narrative/discourse of tradition drops out. The thesis explores how the trope of the village continues to haunt and inspire the artistic production of contemporary African dance and theatre artists.</p>
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Feminist Solidarity Building And Working With Difference: The Case Of The Fiji Women’s Forum
… The methodology used in this research is narrative discourse analysis of field interviews and the data was analysed via a three-stage discourse analysis framework designed by Krzyzanowski and Wodak (2008). Intersectionality was found to be a valuable theoretical lens with which to explore …
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