Based on D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak’s shorter prose (essays, stories), the author distinguishes various types of narrative, i.e. first and third person narration a personal type narration. In several stories essay type, special markers presence narrator stand out expressed in characteristic motifs admiration, interest, curiosity. The proves that during period so-called “second debut” (1881–1882), Mam...

OBJECTIVES To understand doctors' impacts on the emotional coping of patients, their stories about encounters with doctors are used. These accounts reflect meaning-making processes and biographically contextualized experiences. We investigate how patients characterize their doctors by voicing them in their stories, thus assigning them functions in their coping process. METHODS 394 narrated sc...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Nouns and verbs indicate actions in oral communication. However, hearing impairment can compromise the acquisition of oral language to such an extent that appropriate use of these can be challenging. The objective of this study was to compare the use of nouns and verbs in the oral narrative of hearing-impaired and hearing children. DESIGN AND SETTING Analytical cross-sec...

In this article, I consider three narratives, Genesis 38, 2 Samuel 13, and Judges 19, in which biblical authors deploy women’s speech at moments of crisis the plot. These are caused by precarious location bêt ʾāb, theorize using framework Patrimonial Household Model (PHM). assess women characters’ through lens Laura Mary Elizabeth Hare’s sociolinguistic analysis gendered narrative. While Tamar ...

This paper analyses the role of prosody in parenthetical insertions, a type of structure that is extremely common in both speech and writing. The materials under study come from a corpus of spontaneous speech acts in Central Catalan (with varying degrees of spontaneity) from which a corpus of oral parenthetical insertions has been compiled. The prototypical prosodic features of a parenthetical ...

The lognormal distribution had long been thought to be the most appropriate probability distribution for Japanese sentence length distributions. Yet this view had been supported only by few researches with sparse sampling data and reasoning contradicting language reality. In order to show a more realistic approach, we analyzed a substantial number of samples. At first, 150 essays and short stor...

This paper deals with the question of Miklós Mészöly’s and Iván Mándy’s attitude to objects objectivity. My contention is that two authors represent approaches: while Mészöly creates a poetics sight, Mándy sound. Hence their fundamentally different ways writing: desanthropomorphisation, his depersonalized narrative, timelessness descriptions, anthropomorphisation, narrative approaching live spe...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

The development of body movements such as hand or head gestures, or facial expressions, seems to go hand-in-hand with the development of speech abilities. We know that very young infants rely on the movements of their caregivers' mouth to segment the speech stream, that infants' canonical babbling is temporally related to rhythmic hand movements, that narrative abilities emerge at a similar tim...