Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

The use of story cards for user stories in many Extreme Programming software development projects has been widespread. Several popular traditional methods for story cards (e.g., Cohen M, Kent B) have been used in successful fashion at some extent, but all lack of the powerful features for story cards guidelines, right sort of information on story cards and quality of user stories on story cards...

Previous research showed that story illustrations fail to enhance young preschoolers' memories when they accompany a pre-recorded story (e.g., Greenhoot and Semb, 2008). In this study we tested whether young children might benefit from illustrations in a more interactive story-reading context. For instance, illustrations might influence parent-child reading interactions, and thus children's sto...

Dante’s original and insightful linguistics poetics have prompted important conversations among scholars, in terms of their anthropological, theological, philosophical implications. In this article, I reconsider understanding language from the perspective grammar music. bring together scholarship these two disciplines to analyze theoretical poetical works, argue that music offered Dante distinc...

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nowadays novel has a dominant role in literature owing to its special capability to demonstrate the social dilemmas and stories. the main factor which makes a novel attractive is proportionality and symmetry of dialogue with characters and the story. in the case of narratology of a story, an alerted analyzer illustrates premier features of the story with employing narrative mechanisms and story...

Acquisition of story-telling skills is an aspect of language development that is influenced by hearing parental story telling. Because discourse between parent and child is affected by the sex of both parent and child, we hypothesized that sex differences would affect parental story telling and children's acquisition of story-telling skills. For this study, 24 children (12 girls, 12 boys) told ...

This essay represents an inquiry concerning the method in arts; as such, it is intended for affirmation of its significance. Firstly, concept artistic will be explained view relations with poetic impulse and technical aspect art creation, then associated to Longinus?s understanding sublime. In between these two opposites, seen dependent from poetical impulse, while governing side creation proce...

In the present study an additional measure of story narrative performance, story completeness, is evaluated. The completeness measure involves a tally of the critical story components mentioned by a storyteller. It was hypothesized that by combining organizational (story grammar) and completeness measures, story “goodness” could be quantified. Data from 46 normal adults indicated that this anal...