Arapçada, "rivayet, aslı olmayan söz, masal, efsane" gibi anlamlara gelen ve Türkçedeki karşılığı “mitoloji” olan "ustûre/esâtîr" sözcüğü Cahiliye Dönemi’nden beri kullanılan bir kelimedir. Mitoloji, “insanoğlunun doğa olaylarını metafizik âlemini anlama anlamlandırma amaçlı anlatıları; gerçekleşmesi mümkün olmayan, daha çok yazarın hayalciliğiyle oluşan hikâye; kutsal serüvenleri, fizik ötesi ...

PURPOSE Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly because they tend to be better formed than fictional narratives. However, current practice in the field of speech-language pathology employs fictional narratives in assessment, intervention, and study of children wi...

Research has indicated that schizophrenia patients report similar amounts of experienced emotion in response to emotional material compared with nonpatients. However, less is known about how schizophrenia patients describe and make sense of their emotional life events. We adopted a narrative approach to investigate schizophrenia patients' renderings of their emotional life experiences. In Study...

PURPOSE To verify the average time of silent pauses in narratives and the influence of story's complexity in the occurrence of these pauses in narratives of children with typical language development and children with specific language impairment (SLI), and further to compare these aspects between groups. METHODS Sixty children aged between seven to ten years took part in this research, being...

Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have been skeptical of using narratives, raising concerns about their lack of objectivity and potential for bias. They also have criticized narratives as being more performative than scientific. Recent authors, however...