“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its use in the dissemination, transposition, and authorship of stories within The House of Fame , a text exemplifying the mobility and flexibility of misused or unhinged words, as expressed through sound as opposed to text. By engaging the use and interpretation of sound in contrast to words, this n...

I n the February issue of the journal, Sandle discussed current practice and future challenges in the management of external quality assurance in relation to clinical biochemistry, highlighting the need for an audit cycle of continuous improvement. One of the important areas touched upon was the quality assurance of interpretive comments on biochemistry reports; it was suggested that in the fut...

This research in progress proposes an approach to technology adoption that focuses on technology as sign and symbol. Drawing from social theory and consumer behavior literature, we initiate a qualitative study that uses both subject narrative and a visual interpretation of the subject (through photographs of the subject and their technology) to identify how each subject’s social environment bui...

In this paper I defend the claim that fictional names refer to individual concepts, understood as mental files. Those concepts constitute set of thoughts are in turn constitutive, together with corresponding sentences, what call ‘the conceptual world a narrative’. defending thesis, offer novel interpretation distinction between fictive, parafictive and metafictive uses sentences containing name...

The science of the word and theology considered as expertise in area of concern of Islam religion in which it discusses about religious principle, approach and worldview based on rational and narrative reasoning and answer to doubts that pose in this area; in Christianity and in general through all monotheism religions, it could be possible to use this method for religious reasoning, it could b...

This paper outlines a cognitive linguistics framework for an analysis of narratives. It uses the theory of conceptual integration to propose a way of accounting for the emergence of narrative meaning and the correlations between form and interpretation. Processing the language of a narrative text, be it a novel, a film, or a play, is a crucial component of narrative comprehension. The research ...

In this article, the authors construct a story of one woman's (Justine's) experience of learning to run within the context of a beginners group. Building on existing scholarship on narrative, aging, and physical activity, this work is part of a larger ethnographic project examining subjective accounts of the physically active aging body across the life course. Concerned with often simplisticall...

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly any agreement as to the nature of the clinical text, whether it be the patient's narrative that needs to be richly understood, or the patient as patient who must be both personally and clinically de...

OBJECTIVE Narrative review of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) methodology. DESIGN Narrative review of published papers describing methodological aspects of the GCS, from Premedline, Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Ovid Nursing databases from 1950 to May 2012. RESULTS Examination of 18,851 references limited to descriptions of GCS development, pathophysiological correlations, examination techniques, co...