This article has three aims: it first argues that the aesthetics of graphic novels, rarely considered in Humanities dementia research, are especially suited to narratives about traumatic dementia. Second, that, within narrative genre, both indirection and realism can facilitate representations. Third, each author uses 'corrects' well-meaning, idealising, images aimed at challenging negative ste...

This study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  Forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  One group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...

The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their cultural life script. Single-event and life stor...

We present in this paper a constrained version of the problem of enumerating all maximal directed acyclic subgraphs (DAG) of a graph G. In this version, we enumerate stories, which are maximal DAGs whose sources and targets belong to a predefined subset of the nodes. First we show how to compute one story in polynomial-time, and we then describe two different algorithms to “tell” all possible s...

How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

The linguistic fund, that is, the actual lexical inventory of a language, is always considerably larger than the sum total of the contents of dictionaries for that language. It corresponds to all the possibilities of derivation and compounding-with the associated word-formation rules. The exploitation of the latter. within machine-readable dictionaries should therefore allow a far more accurate...

Preschool-aged children are exposed to fantasy stories with the expectation that they will learn messages in those stories that are applied to real-world situations. We examined children's transfer from fantastical and real stories. Over the course of 2 studies, 3½- to 5½-year-old children were less likely to transfer problem solutions from stories about fantasy characters than stories about re...