Narrative Comprehension
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| Author | : Ute Bohnacker |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2020-12-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260346 |
Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.
| Author | : Edward Branigan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136129324 |
Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others. Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of every aspect of filmic fiction exploring, for example, subjectivity in Lady in the Lake, multiplicity in Letter from and Unknown Woman, post-modernism and documentary in Sans Soleil.
| Author | : Catherine Emmott |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780198236498 |
Despite the current explosion of interest in cognitive linguistics, there has so far been relatively little research by cognitive linguists on narrative comprehension. Catherine Emmott draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to present a detailed model of how readers build, maintain, and use mental representations of fictional contexts, and how they keep track of characters and contexts within a complex, changing fictional world. The study focuses on anaphoric pronouns in narratives, assessing the accumulated knowledge required for readers to interpret these key grammatical items. The work has implications for linguistic theory since it questions several long-held assumptions about anaphora, arguing for a 'levels of consciousness' model for the processing of referring expressions.
| Author | : Susan R. Goldman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1999-08-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1135666067 |
This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical developments and thought-provoking empirical data. In doing so, they cover a broad range of communicative activities, including text comprehension, conversational communication, argumentation, television or media viewing, and more. A central theme across all chapters concerns the notion that coherence determines the interpretation of the communication. The various chapters illustrate the many forms that coherence can take, and explore its role in different communicative settings.
| Author | : Danielle S. McNamara |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0805859675 |
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Michael G. Dyer |
| Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 1983-07-01 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780262541558 |
This dissertation describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for in-depth understanding of complex narrative texts. Complicated texts require that many different knowledge sources be represented, coordinated, instantiated, searched and applied. Such sources include: goals, plans, scripts, physical objects, settings, interpersonal relationships, social roles, and emotional reactions. This theory is implemented in BORIS, a computer program which reads and answers questions about narratives involving such topics as: divorce, legal disputes, personal favors, and service contracts.
| Author | : Cecil Gray |
| Publisher | : Nelson Thornes |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780175663187 |
Wavelengths is a collection of 20 superb stories by Caribbean writers, chosen to meet the needs of students in all types of Secondary school in the Caribbean. It provides a one year course for first or second year pupils.
| Author | : Lauren Franke |
| Publisher | : AAPC Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781934575697 |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains assessment tools and worksheets.
| Author | : Marina Grishakova |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2019-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1496214927 |
The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity. Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.
| Author | : Edy Veneziano |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2019-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262918 |
In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills. The first part of the Volume addresses the issue of the interrelatedness between narrative skills and literacy, language and socio-cognitive development, as well as of the impact of narrative practices on the promotion of these different skills. The second part of the Volume addresses the issue of how early interactional experiences, particular contextual settings and specific intervention procedures, can help children promote their narrative skills. The studies span a wide age range, from toddlers to late elementary school children, concern different languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian), and consider narrative skills and practices from a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.
