Uses de Beaugrande's concept analysis system to describe how 20 third graders employed narrative concepts at the local and global levels in written stories, and to assess the coherence of those stories. (SR)

Describes a graphic technique using concentric circles to increase student comprehension of narrative essays. Argues that the method will help students identify events, relationships, and the significance of narrative essays. (RS)

Examined parental influence as retrospectively constructed through narratives of young adults (n=50). Identified five narrative types: progressive narrative with dramatic turning point, progressive narrative within positive evaluation frame, progressive narrative with negatively evaluated stages, anticipated regressive narrative, and sad…

Explores how narratives reveal values, and describes a study of an organization's culture in which values were accessed through narratives. Illustrates how, through narratives, the expressed values enhanced understanding of points of harmony and conflict within an organization. (SR)

Seymour Chatman's kernel/satellite theory is used to analyze the plot of John Galsworthy's short story, "The Japanese Quince." The theory considers the distinction between major events (kernels) and the minor supplementary ones (satellites) in a narrative as an easily proven psychological reality. (six references) (LB)

Presents a comparative analysis of spontaneous story-telling from a bilingual (English and French) four year old without an audience and therefore free of any direct influence from another person. It is found that the French narratives contained a much larger percentage of modifiers and employed a greater variety of tenses. (28 references) (GLR)

Examines how journalists use three narrative strategies (synecdoche, omission, and personalization) to assert their authority in their retellings of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Finds that, by giving themselves a central position within the story, journalists make the assassination story as much about American journalists as about Kennedy's…

Elaborates a model to analyze how contemporary journalism "creates" society--how it "modifies" a person's perspective of the world, enabling individuals to "share" crucial meanings about reality. Bases the model on the analysis of different narrative voices to capture some of the order of the contemporary discourse of…

Used short narratives to study false memory in 6-, 8-, and 11-year olds and adults. The persistence effect and false-memory creation effect were greatest for statements that would be regarded as factually incorrect reports of events in sworn testimony; like suggestive questioning, interviews that involve nonsuggestive recognition questions may…

There is a great deal of narrative in play and also of play in narrative, especially in the narrative and play of young children. Part of the reason for this may be that they share an important pattern or structure in the way they work as mental instruments, "mimesis." Mimesis is a mode of representation in which the relation between the symbol…

In this article I discuss an excerpt from a group discussion between five 15-year-old boys who, in the presence of an adult moderator, engaged in the act of "slut bashing" while telling a minimal story about an incident of female promiscuity. The analysis proceeds microanalytically in a three-step procedure that details the positions taken by the…

This paper is intended to investigate the interplay between proficiency and gender in the use of communication strategies. Sixty Iranian university male and female subjects studying English took part in the experiment and performed two tasks: word recognition and picture-story narration. The results indicate that proficiency had a more perceptible…

After a critique of the standard literacy practice in primary school, the article develops a Vygotskian view on literacy that defines literate activity as a generalised ability of using sign systems for personal and interpersonal use within specific cultural practices. Narrative competence is seen as one specific form of this literate activity.…

In recent years effective instruction in reading for learners with physical and educational disabilities has received great attention in the schools. However, instruction in the corollary skill of writing has received considerably less emphasis. This review paper notes that through the use of assistive technology, students with a variety of…

This finding aid is a selected list of supernatural-related narratives recorded in the United States and held in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress. Brief descriptions of the recordings are accompanied by identification numbers. Information about listening to or ordering any of the listed recordings is available from the…