BACKGROUND As a kidney transplant recipient I have long been exposed to a shortage of renal narratives and to a dominant theme in those that exist: transplant as restitution or redemption. My lived experience has, however, shown me that post-transplant life is more complex. Even after transplantation, chronic kidney disease requires lifelong health care with varying degrees of impairment, resul...

This study investigates how native Turkish-speaking participants of different ages produce new referents in narrative discourse about a 6-frame picture series. Turkish does not obligatorily encode the distinction between indefinite and definite reference with a formal article system. The expression of indefiniteness is instead achieved through a conglomeration of devices, including an optional ...

This commentary draws out themes from the narrative symposium on "living with the label "disability"" from the perspective of auto/biography and critical disability studies in the humanities. It notes the disconnect between the experiences discussed in the stories and the preoccupations of bioethicists. Referencing Rosemarie Garland-Thompson's recent work, it suggests that life stories by peopl...

the written works of ibn bābawayh (shaykh ṣadūq), head of the traditionists and the distinguished figure of shī‘ī ḥadīth in fourth/tenth century, had amounted to 300 books and treatises. a proficient scholar, he has standards and criteria in the field of ḥadīth in general and in criticizing ḥadīth in particular that incorporate approaches and patterns as a guide map and a role model. in order t...

Children's novels sometimes allude to events in the lives of their protagonists after end main narrative, either through assertions authoritative narrators or speculations child characters themselves. Such predictions offer a hostage fortune, however, for history may take different direction from that envisaged by narrative. In such cases, readers must find way navigate contradictions between f...

Abstract Taking its cue from the critical treatment given to unreliable narration by Wayne C. Booth and his early followers, in contrast claims often made field of authentication theory, this paper seeks join debate on “third-person” narrative unreliability outlining an inclusive approach phenomenon which “person” parameter need not be a determining factor. To theorize illustrate approach, meth...

In the last five years, there has been an explosion of mobile apps that aim to impact emotional well-being, yet limited research examined ways users interact, and specifically write develop a therapeutic alliance within these apps. Writing is developmental practice in which narrator transforms amorphous thoughts emotions into expressions, according narrative theory, linguistic characteristics w...