This is a truly interesting and well written book. While many historical works on venereal disease focus on one particular kind of disease, in this volume public debates on the subject play a central role, and therefore we learn not only about syphilis, but also, for instance, about herpes genitalis and AIDS. This is not surprising, because the author's aim was to write a sociological study in ...

Abstract Narrative ability is an important life-skill and mature narrators do not only provide information about actions events when telling a story but also include the motivations, emotions beliefs experienced by protagonists. It rare for young children to spontaneously explain of characters reasons are unclear. In current study, frog data from 143 Swedish aged 4–6 showed that children’s leve...

Virtual agents used in storytelling applications should display consistent and natural multimodal expressions of emotions. In this paper, we describe the method that we defined to endow virtual narrators with individual gesture profiles. We explain how we collected a corpus of gestural behaviors displayed by different actors telling the same story. Videos were annotated both manually and automa...

Abstract How does collective memory shape politics in the domestic and international spheres? I argue that memory—an intersubjective understanding of past—has no inherent meaning its salience is entirely contextual. What it means politically depends on historical trajectory through which came to form political exigency for mobilized present. propose three strategies by social actors mobilize me...

Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, this paper considers ways assessing the credibility narrative arguments constructed in empirical examples conversational discourse. I argue that key any such exercise is to pay close attention structural pragmatic details, particularly how storytelling gets embedded surrounding discourse way discursively accomplished vi...

A series of (5-nitrofuran-2-yl)-1, 3, 4-thiadiazole-2-yl derivatives 6a–6e have been synthesized and screened for in vitro anti-leishmanial activity against the promastigote form of L. major. The structure of Schiff bases were confirmed by 1H NMR, IR. Screening results indicate that all of the designed and synthesized final compounds (6a-6e) significantly reduced the viability of promastigotes ...

In his article "Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English" Henry Whittlesey Schroeder analyzes the different tenses of indirect discourse in these three languages. Indirect discourse in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century adopts a different time in English, German and Russian. English indirect discourse reports in the preterit; German indirect discourse hovers in the subjunctiv...

A series of (5-nitrofuran-2-yl)-1, 3, 4-thiadiazole-2-yl derivatives 6a–6e have been synthesized and screened for in vitro anti-leishmanial activity against the promastigote form of L. major. The structure of Schiff bases were confirmed by 1H NMR, IR. Screening results indicate that all of the designed and synthesized final compounds (6a-6e) significantly reduced the viability of promastigotes ...

Narrative skill in kindergarteners has been shown to be a reliable predictor of later reading comprehension and school achievement. However, we know little about how to scaffold children's narrative skill. Here we examine whether the quality of kindergarten children's narrative retellings depends on the kind of narrative elicitation they are given. We asked this question with respect to typical...