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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"narrative texts"”.
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A Software-based Knowledge Management System Using Narrative Texts
… from the context of the emerging discipline of Texts and Technology. This dissertation explores the field of knowledge management (KM), particularly its relationship to the related study of artificial intelligence (AI), and then recommends a KM software application based on the principles of …
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Investigating Intercultural Communication Competence In Narrative Texts Of English Learners
… fourth and fifth grade English Learners through narrative text composition within the researcher's English Learner classroom environment. This mixed-methods research was conducted as a response to the need for curriculum changes in preparing EL pre-service educators within the higher education …
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An applied linguistic analysis of the simplification of narrative texts
Simplification of texts has traditionally been carried out by replacing words and structures with appropriate semantic equivalents in the learner's interlanguage, omitting whichever items prove intractable, and thereby bringing the language of the original within the scope of the learner's …
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The Discourse Functions of Subordinate Constructions in Classical Sanskrit Narrative Texts
Thus, identifying the discourse functions of the subordinate constructions is useful for understanding the contribution of individual grammatical constructions to textual presentation, as well as for understanding the contribution of a discourse perspective to syntactic description.
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Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
… this gap by analyzing nine important vernacular texts to uncover several distinctive definitions of holiness, all of which blend the religious and the secular. Close reading of these texts reveals various paths to holiness, which undermine the Church’s attempts at sole control over spirituality. …
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Second-graders' social, intellectual, and affective development in varied group discussions about narrative texts: An exploration of participation structures
The 14-week study described in these pages explored the extent to which participation structure mediates participants' literacy development (i.e., social, intellectual and affective development) in the context of reading group discussions about literature. Six second-grade volunteer public school …
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A methodology for the expository narrative preaching as applied to the Old Testament narrative : from text to sermon presentation
… with outlining the weaknesses of contemporary narrative preaching and traditional expository preaching, as we try to preach the Old Testament narrative texts. As an alternative method for preaching the biblical narrative texts, the author proposes the expository narrative preaching as a …
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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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Dialogue and dialectic in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitan and old French courtly lyric and narrative
… Old French and Occitan lyric and narrative. It considers how debate and dialogue are informed by dialectic, which acts as a structural and thematic frame and gives courtly debate its distinctive oppositional tone. I argue that dialectic underpins debate lyrics; dialogues within …
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Effects of story grammar on reading comprehension of L2 readers of French
… on the effects of the rhetorical organization of texts and little research has been done on how L2 readers of French interact with narrative texts.
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Variation in mental models of text as a function of genre
… 1980; Johnson-Laird, 1983). Readers of survey texts and route texts were faster and more accurate in verifying spatial information that was presented in the same form as the initial text (Perrig & Kintsch, 1985). The results suggest that the characteristics of mental models built from these two …
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The Effects of Readers’ Theater on Motivation and Reading Fluency
… on fluency, oral practice, and expository versus narrative texts within the study. Conclusions drawn support the use of Readers’ Theater to improve reading competencies and student motivation.
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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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Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
… expand, complicate, and enhance the conventional narrative that has most often privileged the work of white male artists. When we look at the development of American modernism in fine art, particularly at the period between the Armory Show of 1913 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… of Middle English literature in both lyric and narrative texts. The anonymous musical lyrics of thirteenth century England emphasize the individual subjectivity of the speaker, a quality which is enhanced by their musical settings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written at the end of the fourteenth …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… of Middle English literature in both lyric and narrative texts. The anonymous musical lyrics of thirteenth century England emphasize the individual subjectivity of the speaker, a quality which is enhanced by their musical settings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written at the end of the fourteenth …
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King David : literary aspects of characterization
… this character to the reader. The primary texts examined in this dissertation are I Sam. 16 - I Kings 2:10, and Psalms 3, 7, 18, 34, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63 and 142. In addition to these biblical texts, various biblical and literary critics are consulted, and their theories and …
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Utopia, Deseo Y Consumismo: Interpretaciones De Lo Queer En La Literature Y El Cine Postfranquistas
… which queer subjects resisted social control. In narrative texts by Riera and Martín Gaite (Chapter 1), the main characters invent two islands, Mallorca and Bergai, to represent and to parody the society of the early years after Franco's death. Likewise, the works by Moix and Mayoral (Chapter 2) …
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BECOMING: an analysis of narratives describing the experiences of nurses who have undertaken training in solution focused brief therapy.
… Interviews are transcribed and treated as narrative texts, and are then subjected to multi-factored analysis enabling the synthesis of a group narrative and the construction of a typology of experience. In Stage II, I conduct further in-depth interviews with three of the original …
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