In comics as multimodal narratives visual and verbal modes interact to create meaning. Colours play an important role in comics, the choice of warm or cold colour palette, well bright muted, influences a reader’s perception attitude described events. Comics have number narratological, stylistic, structural other characteristics. Events can be presented both with help narrator (extradiegetic int...

The purpose of the research conducted was to explore and describe HIV patients experience of their illness within the context of rural Malawi and, based on the results of the study, to describe a model for counselling HIV reactive patients in rural Malawi which would meet both the internal and external needs of the patient. Nursing for the Whole Person Theory, as well as symbolic interactionism...

The automatic identification of direct and indirect discourses and the association of each “direct” utterance with its author are research topics that begin to be explored in Natural Language Processing. We developed the DID system that when applied to children stories starts by classifying the utterances that belong to the narrator (indirect discourse) and those belonging to the characters tak...

The Argentinian author Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) left us a vast body of works which are considered outstanding in many ways. In 1960, she published a short story, entitled "El médico encantador" (The Charming Physician), in the renowned literary magazine Sur. The central character of this piece is a family doctor named Albino Morgan, who had a secret truth: in any house he visited, all variety...

This study analyses the narrative elements of a little-known report into anti-venereal trials written by an Irish military physician-surgeon, Daniel O'Sullivan (1760-c.1797). It explores the way in which O'Sullivan as the narrator of the Historico-critical report creates medical heroes and anti-heroes as a means to criticise procedures initiated by staff in the Hospital General de San Andrés, M...