Narratives by Six Year Old and Nine Year Old Boys: Brute: Institutional, and Non-Institutional Mental Facts

<p>Brute facts, institutional facts, and non-institutional mental facts were studied. The philosophy of constructionism and the theory of intent provided a framework for this research. Intentionality provided the basis for social facts. Brute, institutional, and noninstitutional mental facts were operationally defined. This study analyzed the use of these facts in the narratives of 6-year-old boys and 9-year-old boys. There were a total of 19 participants in this research. This research established brute, institutional, and non-institutional mental facts as appropriate operational categories for studying children's narratives. The 6-year-old boys produced more brute facts than the 9-year-old boys. The 9-year-old boys produced significantly more institutional facts in spontaneous narratives than the 6-year-old boys. The production of non-institutional mental facts was not significantly different between the two groups. The discussion pertained to the ramifications of these results as related to spontaneous language samples, appropriate language sampling size, and the syntagmaticparadigmatic shift.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech and Hearing Sciences

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Whipple, Adam Craig

Contributors dc:contributor

• John Muma
• Steve Cloud
• Jennifer Salgo-Corie

• Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Medicine and Health Sciences
• Speech and Hearing Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/574

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1649