Making Sense Of Narrative Text

Author : Michael Toolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317224594

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This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book’s argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.

Author : Michael Toolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317224587

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Making Sense of Narrative Text by Michael Toolan Pdf

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book’s argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.

Author : Michael J. Toolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1315622963

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Author : Geof Hill,Andrew Rixon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781527567337

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Making Sense of Stories by Geof Hill,Andrew Rixon Pdf

This book is an essential companion to The Story Cookbook, and provides a compendium of the varied and different ways stories can be analysed in research and inquiry. Drawing from a range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology and literature studies, this book is an invaluable guide for the researcher, consultant or professional keen to use storytelling as inquiry. Created itself as an iterative action inquiry, and sourced from an international assembly of contributors, the 29 chapters provide an array of ways to analyse stories including juxtaposition, circumambulation, strengths-analysis, grounded theory and thematic analysis approaches. Because of the detail in illuminating each analytical method, this book provides a rich diverse and valuable resource for making sense of stories.

Author : Ruthellen Josselson,Phillip L. Hammack
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Narrative inquiry (Research method)
ISBN : 1433835673

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Essentials of Narrative Analysis by Ruthellen Josselson,Phillip L. Hammack Pdf

"The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In this book, Ruthellen Josselson and Phillip L. Hammack introduce readers to Narrative Analysis, a qualitative method that investigates how people make meaning of their lives and experiences in both social and cultural contexts. This method offers researchers a window into how individuals' stories are shaped by the categories they inhabit, such as gender, race, class, and sexual identity, and it preserves the voice of the individual through a close textual analysis of their storytelling. About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods"--

Author : Susan Engel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781466813137

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The Stories Children Tell by Susan Engel Pdf

Whether presenting their versions of real events or making up tales of adventure and discovery, children enchant us with their stories. But the value of those stories goes beyond their charm. Storytelling is an essential form through which children interpret their own experiences and communicate their view of the world. Each narrative presented by a child is a brushstroke on an evolving self-portrait - a self-portrait the child can reflect on, refer to, and revise. In The Stories Children Tell, developmental psychologist Susan Engels examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. She offers a fascinating look at one of the most exciting areas in modern psychology and education. What is really going on when a child tells or writes a story? Engel's insights into this provocative question are drawn from the latest research findings and dozens of actual children's tales - compelling, funny, sometimes disturbing stories often of unexpected richness and beauty. In The Stories Children Tell, Susan Engel examines: - the different functions of storytelling - the way the storytelling process changes as children develop - the contributions of parents and peers to storytelling - the different types of stories children tell - the development of a child's narrative voice - the best way of nurturing a child's storytelling skills Throughout these discussions, Engel presents compelling evidence for what is perhaps her most intriguing idea: that in constructing stories, children are constructing themselves.

Author : Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761903277

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Making Meaning of Narratives by Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich Pdf

Contributors from five countries, in fields including criminology, literature studies, nursing, psychology, and sociology, explore issues such as how to make meaning of narrative interviews by considering the problem of interpreting what is not said, how cultural meanings about gender are transmitted across generations, and uses of the transformati.

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Jaan Valsiner,Alessandro Gennaro
Publisher : IAP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623960278

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Making Sense of Infinite Uniqueness by Sergio Salvatore,Jaan Valsiner,Alessandro Gennaro Pdf

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science. At the beginning, 3 years ago, we got an agreement with an Italian publisher (FGP - Firera Publishing Group) interested in the scientific project and therefore willing to help the start up of this scientific enterprise. After publishing the first volume (YIS 2008- yet published in 2009 - the Volume is freely available on the FPG's website) we have had many positive feedbacks and signals of interests, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world . This has provided an acceleration of the following issues - Above all, this led us to realize that it was time to give an editorial collocation to YIS that can be more consistent with the interest it has raised and that can ulteriorly raise. FPG does not put constraint on this perspective, being aware and agreed of the necessity of a worldwide context for the YIS's development. Moreover, there are no constraints in the possibility of going on in using the label "YIS," starting from Volume 4 The Series addresses a quite large potential public - students and researchers interested to theoretical and methodological development of psychology and, more in general, social science. Persons engaged with qualitative, dynamic informed models of analysis will find YIS a precious tool as well as a context enabling to develop a worlwide network of practices and cultures of research. The first three volumes' TOC witness how large and constantly increasing is the interest around the scientific project.

Author : Kirsten R. Daehler,Mayumi Shinohara,Jennifer Folsom
Publisher : WestEd
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780914409779

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Making Sense of Science by Kirsten R. Daehler,Mayumi Shinohara,Jennifer Folsom Pdf

This comprehensive professional development course for grades 6–8 science teachers provides all the necessary ingredients for building a scientific way of thinking in teachers and students, focusing on science content, inquiry, and literacy. Teachers who participate in this course learn to facilitate hands-on science lessons, support evidence-based discussions, and develop students' academic language and reading and writing skills in science, along with the habits of mind necessary for sense making and scientific reasoning. Force and Motion for Teachers of Grades 6–8consists of five core sessions: Session 1: Motion Session 2: Change in Motion Session 3: Acceleration and Force Session 4: Force Session 5: Acceleration and Mass The materials include everything needed to effectively lead this course with ease: Facilitator Guide with extensive support materials and detailed procedures that allow staff developers to successfully lead a course Teacher Book with teaching, science, and literacy investigations, along with a follow-up component,Looking at Student Work™, designed to support ongoing professional learning communities CD with black line masters of all handouts and charts to support group discussion and sense making, course participation certificates, student work samples, and other materials that can be reproduced for use with teachers

Author : Antony F. Campbell
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809146347

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Making Sense of the Bible by Antony F. Campbell Pdf

Indicates how current trends in scriptural scholarship may benefit modern faith.

Author : Gül Şen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004510418

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Making Sense of History by Gül Şen Pdf

In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle

Author : Michael Bamberg,Molly Andrews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295026

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Considering Counter-Narratives by Michael Bamberg,Molly Andrews Pdf

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars in the field. Twenty-two commentators discuss these chapters from a number of diverse vantage points, followed by responses from the six original authors. A final chapter by the editor of the book series concludes the book.

Author : Juli Kendall,Outey Khuon
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781571104090

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Making Sense by Juli Kendall,Outey Khuon Pdf

Reading is all about understanding. Many English language learners simply do not understand what they are reading, whether it's a picture book, a literature selection, or a science textbook. Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension lessons have a key role to play in advancing students' understanding of texts.Making Sense provides answers to many common questions asked by teachers of English language learners: How do we organize small-group comprehension instruction? How do we select books to teach strategies? How do we know our kids are getting it--and what do we do when they don't get it? It is an easy-to-use, practical resource for ELD, ESL, and ESOL pull-out teachers, and for push-in teachers working "in-class" to support English language learners.The book's five main sections are geared to the stages of language proficiency, and lessons are divided into 'younger' and 'older' students, spanning kindergarten through grade 8. The authors outline fifty-two lessons that teach students how to make connections, ask questions, visualize (make mental images), infer, determine importance, and synthesize. Each lesson follows a four-part teaching framework: Start Up/Connection--helping students build background and use prior knowledge to connect to the lesson; Give Information--explicitly telling students what they are going to learn and why they are learning it, and then teaching them; Active Involvement--often occurs during the teaching as students practice what they are learning while the teacher checks for understanding and monitors and adjusts instruction; Off-You-Go --opportunities for students to practice what they learned with peers or independently. Making Sense also explores the stages of language proficiency through descriptions of ten English language learners of different ages. A chart of student characteristics for each stage shows how students demonstrate understanding and outlines the implications for planning instruction. This book will appeal to experienced teachers seeking to expand their repertoire of lessons, as well as new teachers just beginning the adventure of teaching comprehension to English language learners.

Author : Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506338712

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Making Meaning of Narratives by Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich Pdf

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what is not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

Author : Tina Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521835725

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Making Sense of Motherhood by Tina Miller Pdf

This 2005 book charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood.