In this study, we examined relations among gender, self-concept and children's autobiographical narratives. Twenty-two white middle-class children 8 years of age (50% female) were administered the Children's Self-View Questionnaire (CSVQ). In addition, children were asked to recall a speci®c experience associated with each of the nine self-concept dimensions assessed by the CSVQ, including Achi...

Physicians' narratives of their own experiences of illness can be a kind of empathic bridge across the divide between a professional healer and a sick patient. This essay considers ways in which physicians' narratives of their own and family members' experiences of cancer shape encounters with patients and patients' experiences of illness. It analyzes ethical dimensions of physicians' narrative...

PURPOSE With the increase in life expectancy, couples living in intimate partner violence are aging together. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of aging in intimate partner violence as narratives of couplehood or narratives of old age. DESIGN AND METHODS Thirty individual in-depth interviews with 15 older Israeli couples were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analy...

Conducting qualitative research in applied linguistics seems to have some challenges. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges of applied linguists across different research abilities to conduct qualitative studies. To that end, the biographical narratives, authored by 13 applied linguists, were collected. Then, the narratives were analyzed through qualitative data analysis princip...

al-suyuti's al jame'a al saghir is a famous narrative collections of sunnite compiled alphabetically in terms of initial letter of narratives. this study is to assess methodical degree of aforementioned book in field of dissection of narratives. the present study, based on the systematic hierarchical approach is provided by quantitative content analysis, assesses 400 narratives from t...

The conceptual idea of the paper is that the use of digital biographical narratives in a foreign language classroom creates favorable conditions for the harmonious development and creative, cognitive, communicative and technological skills of students. The paper deals with the methods of teaching students to create digital biographical narratives about the life of outstanding personalities whic...

The article gives a review of the last ten years' of research on illness narratives, and organises this research around certain central themes. Four aspects of illness narratives are discussed: 1. a proposed typology giving three different kinds of illness narratives illness as narrative, narrative about illness, and narrative as illness; 2. considerations of what can be accomplished with the h...

UNLABELLED This study examined the role that mothers' scaffolding plays in the autobiographical memory (AM) and storybook narratives of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Seven 4-5-year-old children and their mothers co-constructed narratives in both contexts. We also compared children's narratives with mothers to their narratives with an experimenter. Narratives were assessed in...

A narrative is an ordered sequence of connected events, usually involving multiple participants. Most existing visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between characters in the narrative. These techniques make a number of simplifying assumptions about the narrative structure, however. T...