Discusses stories in general, stories in the novel, and "Robinson Crusoe," focusing on what happens in and to narrative--the transformation in the nature of story--that brings the novel into existence. (DD)

Examines the use of iconic representations in young children from a Vygotskian perspective. Uses analysis of children's drawings as basis for argument that iconic representations are narrative in nature: children supplement drawings with verbal symbols to ensure that intended meanings are clear and thereby learn to carry out semiotic activity and…

Analyzes restarts, a common feature of conversation, in literary discourse. The term "restart" refers to the repetition of a word or words within an utterance by the same speaker. Restarts in literary discourse are of two types: (1) those produced by the characters in their "real" narrative world and (2) those produced by the narrators themselves.…

Replies to Rowland's article (same issue) on Fisher's views of the narrative paradigm. Clarifies the narrative paradigm by discussing three senses in which "narration" can be understood, and by indicating what the narrative paradigm is not. (SR)

Investigated the role of parental interaction styles on children's developing skill at providing contextual orientation in personal experience narratives. Eighteen monthly narratives were elicited from toddlers. The children's increasing skill at independently providing context about when and where was correlated with mothers' frequency of using…

Discusses three major accounts (by Philip Meggs, Enric Satue and Richard Hollis) of graphic design history. Notes that these texts address the history of graphic design, but each raises questions about what material to include, as well as how graphic design is both related to and distinct from other visual practices such as typography, art…

Stories give meaning to our lives and create community, offering other worlds of relation and possibilities, contexts for human action, sentiment, and feeling. Until recently, law and literature were assumed to be radically different kinds of intellectual activity, and in law, fiction has not been used to teach important lessons. (MSE)

Explores a view of both art and therapeutic emotion as primary acts of mind, or lived experiences. Argues that processes of artistic gesture or emotional enactment construct symbols from personal and interpersonal contexts and that an understanding of these processes as experienced and enacted calls for a narrative rather than a paradigmatic…

Finds that elaborated audio narrative structure increased resources allocated to a message and memory for the message; increased video narrative structure did not influence resource allocation but did increase memory; and messages were recalled in narrative form regardless of the narrative structure of the message. (SR)

This article intervenes in the debate about the pedagogical import of Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter. Should this book be regarded as a typical example of black pedagogy or as a form of subversive children's literature? I argue in favour of the latter point of view, on the basis of a close reading of the interaction between words and…

This study examines the problem of how teachers establish desirable positions of authority in their classrooms. The interpretive analysis draws on insights from narrative theory in order to consider the following question: How does one teacher establish authority in her classroom through the means of narrative performance? I articulate a…

Variation in verbal morphology is a phenomenon which has been the object of linguistic research for a long time. Two competing sets of predictions have been put forth to account for the distribution of verbal inflections in learner language: The Aspect Hypothesis posits that learners predominantly use inflections to indicate categories of lexical…

In comprehending stories, adults create mental models from which they follow the actions of the characters from the characters' different mental vantage points. Using a novel methodology, this study is the first to examine when children attain the narrative ability to track the mental perspective of characters. That is, when do children follow…

The authors present a practical set of guidelines for school counselors interested in initiating and using narrative leagues after a small group experience ends. A case example demonstrates how a narrative league can help students to maintain new skills or behaviors.

Background: Verbal perseveration (i.e. excessive self-repetition) is a characteristic of male individuals with fragile X syndrome; however, little is known about its occurrence among females or its underlying causes. This project examined the relationship between perseveration and (1) gender, (2) cognitive and linguistic ability, and (3) language…