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Madrid, Samara Dawn. "Emotional themes in preschool children's play narratives." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1189731683.
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Lussier, Gretchen. "Children's narratives and social-emotional adjustment following parental divorce and remarriage /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3035569.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-131). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Holcom, James Christopher. "Heart of the Beholder: The Pathos, Truths and Narratives of Thermopylae in _300_." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5704.
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This thesis argues that critical understanding of historical narratives needn’t be limited to cold, clinical applications of logic and reason. By doing a close textual reading of Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s graphic novel, 300 and Zack Snyder’s 2007 film adaptation, I posit that critical analysis of popular narratives is better served when pathos takes a central role. Traditional rhetorical criticism tends to favor empirical evidence and fact over emotional, narrative truth. Yet, the writing, recounting and interpretation of history are more akin to arts than sciences. Historical narratives are subject to the same influences and techniques that make poetry, sculpture and music evocative and memorable. Therefore, the closest method by which to recreate the experience of historical events is through pathos. Pathos can serve to focus the attention of an audience and cultivates an intuitive understanding of historical, social, and cultural events.
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Sheff, Sarah Elizabeth. "“I WANT TO FEEL WHAT THEY FEEL”: EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EMOTIONAL FLOW IN NARRATIVE HEALTH BLOGS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/84.
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Emotion has long been implemented in persuasive messages and campaigns to influence attitudes and health behavior. Research demonstrates that messages often evoke more than one emotion during and after exposure, and this was previously viewed as an undesirable outcome; however, the literature suggests that the intentional inclusion of multiple emotions, or emotional flow, could positively impact persuasive outcomes, such as attitudes and behavioral intention.
The proposed study employs the concept of emotional flow, the intentional inclusion of more than one discrete emotion, in the context of narrative health blogs addressing mental health topics relevant to college students. The study specifically examines how the inclusion of a second discrete emotion influences transportation, identification, and attitudes.
Participants were randomly assigned to one of six conditions and read a narrative health blog designed to evoke either one or two discrete emotions. After message exposure, they responded a brief survey to assess discrete emotions, transportation, identification, attitudes, and demographics. Data were analyzed using ANOVAs and ANCOVAs.
The findings revealed that although the narratives elicited moderate levels of transportation and identification, there were not significant difference between conditions. Theoretical and practical implications for the study of narratives and emotional flow are discussed, in addition to practical implications for studying mental health.
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Ciaralli, Spencier R. "The Climax of the Story: Queering Women's Sexual Histories and Pleasure Narratives." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1623766193046997.
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Reagan, Andrew James. "Towards a science of human stories: using sentiment analysis and emotional arcs to understand the building blocks of complex social systems." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/743.
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We can leverage data and complex systems science to better understand society and human nature on a population scale through language --- utilizing tools that include sentiment analysis, machine learning, and data visualization.
Data-driven science and the sociotechnical systems that we use every day are enabling a transformation from hypothesis-driven, reductionist methodology to complex systems sciences.
Namely, the emergence and global adoption of social media has rendered possible the real-time estimation of population-scale sentiment, with profound implications for our understanding of human behavior.
Advances in computing power, natural language processing, and digitization of text now make it possible to study a culture's evolution through its texts using a "big data" lens.
Given the growing assortment of sentiment measuring instruments, it is imperative to understand which aspects of sentiment dictionaries contribute to both their classification accuracy and their ability to provide richer understanding of texts.
Here, we perform detailed, quantitative tests and qualitative assessments of 6 dictionary-based methods applied to 4 different corpora, and briefly examine a further 20 methods.
We show that while inappropriate for sentences, dictionary-based methods are generally robust in their classification accuracy for longer texts.
Most importantly they can aid understanding of texts with reliable and meaningful word shift graphs if (1) the dictionary covers a sufficiently large enough portion of a given text's lexicon when weighted by word usage frequency; and (2) words are scored on a continuous scale.
Our ability to communicate relies in part upon a shared emotional experience, with stories often following distinct emotional trajectories, forming patterns that are meaningful to us.
By classifying the emotional arcs for a filtered subset of 4,803 stories from Project Gutenberg's fiction collection, we find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives.
We strengthen our findings by separately applying optimization, linear decomposition, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning.
For each of these six core emotional arcs, we examine the closest characteristic stories in publication today and find that particular emotional arcs enjoy greater success, as measured by downloads.
Within stories lie the core values of social behavior, rich with both strategies and proper protocol, which we can begin to study more broadly and systematically as a true reflection of culture.
Of profound scientific interest will be the degree to which we can eventually understand the full landscape of human stories, and data driven approaches will play a crucial role.
Finally, we utilize web-scale data from Twitter to study the limits of what social data can tell us about public health, mental illness, discourse around the protest movement of #BlackLivesMatter, discourse around climate change, and hidden networks.
We conclude with a review of published works in complex systems that separately analyze charitable donations, the happiness of words in 10 languages, 100 years of daily temperature data across the United States, and Australian Rules Football games.
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Wu, Hui-Fen. "Learning from experience : a thematic analysis of parent narratives concerning the emotional lives of young children with autism and without language." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11800/.
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Understanding of autism has changed dramatically during the last 70 years. One change which is beginning to occur relates to the emotionality of young children with autism although it is an aspect of their lives which can still be overlooked and sometimes completely disregarded. The DSM-V, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association, 2013, continues to significantly underestimate the emotional lives of individuals with autism (Wu, 2013). This study sets out to question the conceptualisation of emotionality in children with autism, and focuses on the emotional lives of non-verbal young children with autism, in the hope of making an improvement to the efficacy of service responses. However, given the centrality of parents in the lives of those children with autism and who are without language, it is the views of the parents about the emotional lives of their children during their early years which are examined through a thematic analysis of narrative accounts from two families in the UK and two families in Taiwan. What emerges from these parental accounts is their understanding of a fundamental complexity of individuals with autism. There is little evidence to suggest that children with autism experience emotions differently and indeed the parental narratives in this study suggest that children with autism experience a range of emotions and can enjoy a sense of humour, develop relationships and have preferences. Recommendations are made that children with autism must be considered by professionals and those who offer ‘treatment’, as human beings with emotionality.
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Norman, Nancy Alice. "Narratives of teacher-student relationships : how itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing support their students’ social and emotional development." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58523.
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Positive teacher-student relationships promote healthy school experiences and have been shown to play an important role in creating positive social and academic outcomes for students, including students with special learning needs (e.g., Hamre & Pianta, 2001). Most deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students are educated in inclusive school environments alongside their hearing peers, and likely receive additional support from an itinerant teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing throughout their school years (kindergarten to grade 12). However, very little is known about the significance of this unique teacher-student relationship in terms of social and emotional support, nor in what ways this relationship may help or hinder social inclusion at school. To address the paucity of research in this area, I used a narrative inquiry and multiple case study design to examine the characteristics of the itinerant teacher-DHH student relationship. Each participant (four itinerant teachers and four DHH students) participated in two separate individual interviews and was asked to reflect upon their relationship working with DHH students or itinerant teachers, as appropriate. The first interview was semi-structured and captured the participants’ perspectives of their itinerant teacher-DHH student relationships generally. The second interview focused on the meaning and significance of the itinerant teacher-student relationship. Narrative stories for each participant were written from the interview data and analyzed using a constant comparison, thematic content analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Six prominent themes emerged from the itinerant teacher narrative stores: identity development (of students), attachment, safe space, connector, advisor, and itinerant teacher identity. Five prominent themes emerged from the DHH student narrative stories: identity development (of students), attachment, safe space, connector, and advisor. This study contributes to the field of Deaf Education in terms of identifying possible important aspects of the itinerant teacher-student relationship from both the teachers’ and the students’ perspectives. In addition, the findings shed light on potential interpersonal mechanisms that may be involved in creating successful school experiences for DHH students who are educated in inclusive school environments.Education, Faculty of
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Tironi, Contreras Angela. "It's been like a rollercoaster: a linguistic examination of the emotional experience of learning English in the narratives of pre-service English teachers." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/130141.
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The present two-fold theoretical research attempts to firstly identify the emotions that emerge in the oral narratives of twelve pre-service English teachers about their learning experience and, secondly, to examine their linguistic instantiation. The analysis was centred upon how the twenty two emotions, as defined by Ortony, Clore, & Collins (1988), relate to specific events, agents and objects involved in this experience of learning English in tertiary education. A secondary step was to analyse the emotion-indexed utterances and recognise lexical and discursive patterns across the corpus. The results showed a slight increase in the display of negative emotions across participants, which can be interpreted through linguistic theory of cultural scripts. It was also revealed from the data the occurrence of reproach as the highest cued emotion associated to classmates and teachers, yielding insightful reflections as to the role of those agents in the learning experience and identity construction. Finally, the discussion on the interplay of emotions, multiple functions and concept metaphors for emotions helped elucidate on the long-held debate over linguistic relativism or universality of emotions.
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Gustafson, Fredrik. "Elicitation of emotions in advertising film : Analysis of the emotional response regarding different lengths of an emotionally based narrative commercial." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-36789.
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In a world that is moving towards more mobile viewing, and shorter ad formats –the filmmaker must adapt. A lot of advertisers now ask for video which is originally created for a longer format, to be adapted into a shorter format. But how much of the emotional impact is lost when adapting an emotionally based narrative commercial? This study aims to find out what the difference in emotional response is regarding different lengths of the same emotionally based narrative video. The author edited an already finished emotionally based narrative commercial video into two new, shorter versions. The process is documented and presented. These three videos were then shown to volunteers, alongside questions regarding their emotional state before and after. When analyzing the data gathered from the questionnaire it was clear that the emotional response differed from the various videos. The original video omitted the largest emotional response, and the shortest video omitted the lowest amount of emotional response. It seems that when adapting an emotionally based narrative video into a shorter format, some aspects of the video get lost. In turn, the emotional response of the viewers will be impacted.
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Lauri, Marcus. "Narratives of governing : rationalization, responsibility and resistance in social work." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-119783.
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For many years, Sweden has had a reputation for having a comprehensive and women friendly welfare state. However, as in many other European countries during the past few decades, the organization and governing of welfare has undergone profound changes. Through interviews with social workers and the application of theories of governmentality, this thesis analyzes the expressions and consequences of such current organization and governing. One result is that the introduction of meticulous documentation practices of social workers contact with clients, regulate their interaction and constitute a control over both client and social worker. Another result is that the current organization fragments labor and awards more authority to managers, which functions to produce loyalty to the organization and management, rather than clients. This is expressed in demands not to voice protest, as it is said to create a bad mood. It is also expressed in demands to spend as little as possible on clients; short duration of treatment, preference for outpatient treatment and by making it difficult to receive financial support. This austerity is legitimized through the intermeshing of different ideals; budget awareness, evidence that supports short and outpatient treatment and that clients in order to change their course of life should to be allowed or coerced into taking individual responsibility. Another important finding is that the current governing and organization of social work produce distance and detachment, and thus discourage caring subjects. This is a complex process in which an assemblage of different techniques and rationalities undermines the cultivation of a relationship between social worker and client. 1) The ideal of evidence-based practice favors rigid methods over a flexible and holistic approach. 2) Ideals of rationality, closely connected to notions of masculinity and professionalism, value objectivity and devalue and deter the surfacing of emotions. 3) Meticulous practices of documentation reduce the amount of time available to meet clients. 4) Ideals and particular methods designed to promote individual responsibility in clients legitimize social workers distancing themselves from clients’ dependency and needs. 5) A division of labor, in either assessment or treatment, reduces time spent with clients for those who work with assessment and ultimately engage in the rationing of resources. 6) Standardized digital templates, installed to aid in assessments, regulate and proceduralize interactions with the client. 7) Austerity, heavy workloads, individualized responsibility and stress further accentuate distance, as detachment becomes a means to cope with arduous working conditions. The transformation of social work described above produces alienation and a fragmentation of social workers’ collective subjects. Simultaneously, an ethos of caring makes some social workers work extra hard to provide for clients, which ultimately covers for flaws in the system. Although such an ethos of caring allows for the further exploitation of social workers, it is also understood as a means of resistance, which in turn also forms the basis for organized resistance.Sverige har ett internationellt rykte för att ha en omfattande och kvinnovänlig välfärd. Även om riktigheten i en sådan uppfattning sedan länge ifrågasatts har på senare år, likt i många andra Europeiska länder, det svenska välfärdssystemet genomgått en omfattande förändring i avseende på dess räckvidd, men också dess organisering och styrning. Fokus för denna studie är just denna organisering och styrning, och mer specifikt, hur detta påverkar ett av välfärdens kanske mest centrala område: socialt arbete. Genom att intervjua socialarbetare undersöks i denna studie uttryck för och konsekvenser av en sådan förändring, bland annat genom att undersöka hur könsbundna föreställningar och förväntningar är sammanflätade med det sociala arbetets organisering och styrning. I studien konstateras att socialarbetare erfar att deras arbete genomgått omfattande förändringar, vilket kopplas ihop med både organiseringen och styrningen av det sociala arbetet. Detta uttrycks både i de ideal som kringgärdar arbetet men också i dominerande arbetssätt. En sådan förändring är införandet av omfattande dokumentationsprocedurer av socialarbetarens arbete och kontakt med klienter, vilket medför att kontakten med klienterna blir ytligare. Dokumentationsprocedurerna utgör också en sorts kontroll av både klienterna och socialarbetarna själva. En annan förändring som konstateras är att nya organisationsmodeller och en förändrad ledarskapskultur skapar förväntningar på socialarbetarna att vara lojala med organisationen och ledningen snarare än klienterna. Bland annat utrycks detta genom förväntningar att inte protestera och skapa dålig stämning på arbetsplatsen, men också genom uttalade krav att spendera så lite resurser som möjligt på klienterna; korta behandlingstider, öppenvårdsalternativ och orimligt hårda krav för att få ekonomiskt bistånd. Detta legitimeras genom sammanväxningen av flera olika ideal; budgetmedvetenhet, att klienter inte mår bra av långa institutionsvistelser, men också att klienterna ska tillåtas eller bör tvingas att klara att sig själva. Ett av studiens huvudresultat är att den nuvarande organiseringen och styrningen av socialt arbete skapar avstånd och likgiltighet. Genom flera sammankopplade ideal och arbetssätt styrs dagens socialarbetare till att bry sig mindre om de klienter de möter. På så sätt undermineras förutsättningarna för framväxten av en djup relation mellan socialarbetare och klient; 1) Idealet och kravet att socialarbetare ska arbeta utifrån evidens, det vill säga metoder och förhållningssätt som i speciellt utformade utvärderingsmodeller visat sig ha effekt, gör att väl strukturerade och rigida metoder ges företräde. Denna instrumentalisering underminerar ett flexibelt, relationsorienterat och helhetsfokuserat sätt att arbeta. Dessutom gör evidensidealets fokus på enskilda individer och avgränsade utvärderingstider att mer samhällsinriktat kritiskt och långsiktigt inriktat arbete undermineras. 2) Ett rationalitetsideal, tätt sammanbundet med föreställningar om professionalitet och maskulinitet, värderar objektivitet och förmågan att frikoppla socialarbetarens egna känslor från sitt arbete. Detta maskuliniserade professionsideal innebär att empati och solidaritet med klienten undergrävs. 3) Omfattande krav på olika former av dokumentation av det sociala arbetet gör att tiden som socialarbetaren har till sitt förfogande för att besöka och att ha möten med klienten blir knapp. 4) Ett allmänt samhällsideal kring individuellt ansvar och en särskild arbetsmetod (motiverande samtal) som många socialarbetare förväntas lära sig, framhäver klientens eget ansvar för och vilja till förändring. Detta legitimerar ett avståndstagande från klientens behov av hjälp och stöd enligt logiken ”du måste klara detta själv”. 5) En vanligt förekommande uppdelning av socialarbetarnas arbetsuppgifter i en så kallad beställar-utförarmodell gör att vissa socialsekreterare arbetar med hjälp och stöd, medan andra arbetar med bedömningar av klienters behov. De senare, som också har inflytande över resurstilldelning, blir med en sådan organisering av arbetet alltmer frikopplade från den stödjande och hjälpande verksamheten och kontakten med klienten. 6) Standardiserade digitala bedömningsinstrument, skapade för att på ett likvärdigt sätt bedöma klienters behov och dokumentera det sociala arbetet, reglerar och instrumentaliserar kontakten med klienter. 7) Tunga arbetsbördor, individualiserat ansvar och stress, bidrar ytterligare till att skapa avstånd och likgiltighet eftersom det för vissa utgör ett sätt att genomleva en ohållbar arbetssituation. En allmän åtstramning av socialtjänstens resurstilldelning förstås som en viktig orsak till behovet av att skapa ovan distansmekanismer. Men distansen hänger också ihop med en tendens till ett återupplivande av en tidigare dominerande förståelse av marginalisering och sociala problem; där människors nöd ses som ett utslag av dålig karaktär och ett resultat av dåliga individuella val. De förändringar av det sociala arbetets premisser som beskrivits ovan gör att socialarbetarna alltmer görs främmande inför sitt arbete – de alieneras. Detta främmandegörande uttrycks genom att inte kunna identifiera sig med arbetet självt, sina kollegor eller med sig själv. Ett sådant främmandegörande underminerar, eller fragmentiserar, både relationen till klienten, men också en känsla av gemenskap med andra socialarbetare. En gemenskap som kan utgöra ett ”vi” och ligga till grund för att ställa krav, protestera och göra motstånd mot avhumaniserande ideal och reformer. På så vis är främmandegörandet inte bara en konsekvens av dagens organisering och styrning, utan också något som fyller en viktig funktion för en sådan styrning och organisering, och genomförandet av en allmän åtstramning i socialpolitiken. Samtidigt som dagens organisering och styrning av socialt arbete är främmandegörande, slår vissa socialarbetare knut på sig själva och arbetar extra hårt för att täcka upp för systemets brister och krympande resurser, för att trots det svåra läget ändå försöka ge det stöd som de upplever att klienten behöver. Ett sådant historiskt förankrat femininiserat omsorgsideal, dvs känslor av ansvar och empati inför behövande och en ilska inför oförrätter, utgör därmed på samma gång grund för en fördjupad exploatering av socialarbetarna, och ett vardagligt motstånd mot rådande system. I ett läge när flera upplever att kollegialiteten som grund för motstånd på arbetsplatserna underminerats, utgör ett sådant omsorgsideal samtidigt också grunden för organiserat motstånd utanför arbetsplatsen, bortom chefernas insyn, kontroll och härskartekniker. Medan nuvarande styrningssystem underminerar ett visst sorts motstånd, uppstår samtidigt grunden för nya.
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Correia, Luiz Gustavo Pereira de Souza. ""A pupila dos cegos é seu corpo inteiro" : compreendendo as sensibilidades de indivíduos cegos através das suas tessituras narrativas." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/12529.
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Esta tese tem como objetivo compreender as vivências dos processos simbólicos e as interpretações pessoais sobre a perda da visão via narrativas de indivíduos cegos habitantes de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. As abordagens teórico-metodológicas são voltadas às temporalidades diversas emaranhadas nas memórias dos personagens e recompostas nas suas narrativas, tendo como pressupostos os ritmos, as descontinuidades, os movimentos e as possibilidades de articulação próprias às trocas intersubjetivas vividas na cidade, entendida aqui como cenário onde se vinculam as experiências. As emoções expressas nas narrativas são os elementos de análise e compreensão das elaborações simbólicas dos personagens da sua localização e orientação social como indivíduos cegos. Desta forma é discutida a intersubjetividade na vivência da cegueira, como possibilidade de pensar a experiência subjetiva do corpo em seu engajamento ou enraizamento no mundo social.The aim of this thesis is to understand the experiences of symbolic processes and personal interpretations about loss of vision by narratives of Porto Alegre’s blind inhabitants. The theoretical and methodological approaches follow the several temporalities matted in characters memories and reconstructed in their narratives. The presuppositions are the rhythms, discontinuities, movements and possible articulations peculiar to the intersubjective changes experienced in city as a set where experiences are bond. Emotions expressed in narratives are elements to analyze and understand symbolic elaborations made by characters to explain their social localisation and orientation as blind individuals. In this way, we discuss the intersubjectivity in blindness experience as a way of thinking the subjective experience in its involvement or establishment in the social world.
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Meisiek, Stefan. "Beyond the emotional work event : social sharing of emotion in organizations." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.] (EFI), 2003. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/628.htm.
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Yücel, Koç Melike. "Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/208.
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The primary focus of this research was to investigate the emotion language and emotion narratives of Turkish-English late bilinguals who have been living in the U.S. Previous research has shown that the emotion language and narratives of second language learners and native speakers of English are different. This study focused on late bilinguals who had learnt English in instructed settings in their home country, and came to the U.S. for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The study consisted of two parts. In the first part, the elicited personal narratives of Turkish-English late bilinguals in English were compared to those elicited from native speakers of English with regard to both emotion and emotion-laden word production and narrative structure. The results showed that there were differences between the emotion language and narratives of the bilinguals and native speakers in their English narratives. In the second part of the study, personal narratives were elicited from Turkish-English late bilinguals in their first language, Turkish and their emotion language and narrative structure from their English narratives were compared to their narratives produced in Turkish. Similarly, the results showed that the emotion language and emotion narratives of bilinguals in English and Turkish were different. In conclusion, late bilinguals' emotion language and narratives are different in their first and second languages. Furthermore, they are different from the emotion language and narratives of native speakers.
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Antunes, Adriana Guimarães. "O linguajear e o emocionar no diário de uma professora iniciante." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2013. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/4792.
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Este trabalho propõe-se a investigar como o linguajear e o emocionar da docência modificam-se no início da carreira. O estudo foi desencadeado pelo desconforto que a metodologia do ensino de Matemática, baseada em sua maioria na apresentação do conteúdo e na realização de exercícios, causava tanto nos estudantes quanto na professora. A situação vivenciada nos primeiros anos da docência indicava a necessidade de estabelecer outro linguajear e emocionar com os estudantes, que favorecesse suas aprendizagens e não mais os negasse enquanto sujeitos aprendentes. Escolhemos a metodologia de Projetos de Aprendizagem como proposta facilitadora da aprendizagem, o que demandou a construção do saber no coletivo. Para conhecermos as transformações no linguajear e no emocionar foi necessário utilizar um instrumento de acompanhamento das atividades docente. Escolhemos o diário de aula como instrumento para o registro da experiência vivida no ensino de Matemática, de junho a dezembro de 2012, com os alunos do sexto e sétimo anos, de uma escola da rede pública de ensino. Analisamos e discutimos a narrativa presente no “Diário de uma professora iniciante” a partir da Investigação Narrativa, que se constitui tanto como fenômeno que se investiga quanto método de investigação. O conversar no diário mostrou uma professora iniciante com muitas inquietações em relação ao seu fazer docente, trazendo indicadores da insatisfação com a metodologia de ensino utilizada e o quanto o trabalho na perspectiva reprodutiva refletia-se na falta de desejo de aprender dos estudantes. Revelou também um emocionar de conflito com as certezas relacionadas aos processos de ensinar e aprender. Na experiência, aprendemos a respeitar os diferentes sujeitos e aceitá-los na sua singularidade, a refletir na ação e a tomar decisões a respeito do que já estava determinado de antemão (sistema escolar, ambiente físico, relações sociais, finalidades e objetivos educativos) que normalmente não questionávamos. Refletir na e sobre a ação permitiu-nos compreender os fundamentos de um fazer que emergiu da constituição docente que, em sua maioria, ocorre pela incorporação de um modo de viver. Estar em constante processo de formação foi o que nos mobilizou e forneceu subsídios para realizarmos a reflexão e, consequentemente, modificarmos as condutas estabelecidas com os estudantes. Problematizar a própria ação e as questões que permeiam a profissão docente possibilitou-nos questionar e compreender as razões pelas quais definimos nosso linguajear e emocionar no espaço de sala de aula e qual cultura de escola queremos gerar com os alunos. Tomamos a reflexão sobre a reflexão na ação como estratégia que nos permitirá fazer a docência na objetividade-entre-parênteses e gerar uma cultura que legitime a ação de todos os sujeitos como protagonistas dos processos de ensinar e aprender, de forma recíproca e igualmente válida.
This study aims to investigate how the language and the emotion of teaching are modified in teacher's early career. The study was triggered by the discomfort that the methodology of teaching Mathematics, based mostly on the presentation of content and exercises, caused both the students and the teacher. The situation experienced in the early years of teaching indicated the need to establish another language and emotion with the students, which may favor their learning and no longer deny them as learners. We chose the Learning Projects methodology as learning facilitator proposal, which required the collective construction of knowledge. To find out the changes in language and emotion, it was necessary to use a monitoring tool for teaching activities. We chose the diary as a tool to record the experience in teaching Mathematics, from June to December 2012, with students of the sixth and seventh years of a public school education. We analyze and discuss the narrative present in "Diary of a beginning teacher" from Narrative Research perspective, which is both a phenomenon that is being investigated and an investigation method. The conversation in the diary showed a beginner teacher with many concerns regarding their teaching. It brings indicators of dissatisfaction with the teaching methodology applied and how the work in reproductive perspective was reflected in the students' lack of learning desire. It also revealed an emotion of conflict about the certainties of the teaching and learning processes. In this experiment, we've learned to respect the different subjects and accept them in their uniqueness; to reflect in the course of action and to make decisions about what was in advance already determined (school system, physical environment, social relationships, educational goals and objectives), which normally there were no questioning about. Reflecting in the course and about the action has allowed us to understand the acting bases, which has emerged from the teacher's constitution, which mostly occurs by the incorporation of a way of living. Being in a constant process of study mobilized us and provided subsidies to accomplish a strong reflection about our practices and, as a result, a modified behavior with the students. Problematizing the action itself and the issues that underlie the teaching profession enabled us to question and understand the reasons why we define our language and emotion in the classroom space and which school culture we want to create with the students. We take the reflection about the reflection in course of action as a strategy that will allow us to make the objectivity- between-parenthesis teaching and to generate a culture that legitimizes the action of all the subjects as protagonists of the processes of teaching and learning, in a reciprocal and equally way.
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Horrocks, Aubrie. "Speaking the unspeakable: emotional expressions of identity within journals." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1149.
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Creating a sense of identity is constructed through communicative processes allowing us to participate in interpersonal relationships, and understand who we are. "Much of our emotional life is bound up with the way we narrate experiences..." (Kerby, 1991, p. 48). Because experiences are told from our own perspective, what we tell is significant. It reflects our feelings regarding a situation, and in the telling of the story, we reinterpret the way we understand our life and how we know ourselves. The purpose of this study is to examine the content and structure of the narratives contained within a diary, in order to learn how an individual interprets emotional experiences and constructs identities. It is a unique opportunity to explore how individuals can cope with ambiguity and uncertainty by constructing multiple identities to functionally enact within a variety of environments.
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Streck, Melissa. "Análise da influência dos personagens sobre a experiência de games narrativos : um estudo de caso de vínculos emocionais com o jogo portal." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/115301.
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A pesquisa apresentada nesta dissertação teve como tema os personagens em games. Seu objetivo foi compreender a influência dos personagens sobre as emoções da experiência de jogo, levando em conta as questões relativas à carracterização, atuação e ao papel dos mesmos no encadeamento da narrativa. Para isso, foi realizada uma análise da estrutura narrativa do jogo Portal (Valve Co., 2007) e um estudo empírico qualitativo dos vínculos emocionais dos jogadores durante a experiência de jogo. Além de seu grande sucesso e popularidade, esse jogo foi escolhido devido à importância do NPC, cujas manifestações constróem a narrativa. A pesquisa verificou a coerência entre as teorias sobre a construção de personagens, bem como sobre narrativa e emoção e a experiência dos jogadores. Além disso, foi possível constatar que os vínculos emocionais dos jogadores que participaram do estudo divergiram nos momentos de maior e menor tensão e convergiram nas passagens de tensão intermediária. A visualização da estrutura narrativa do jogo Portal e sua comparação com as marcações efetuadas pelos jogadores nas várias passagens do jogo contribuem para a melhor compreensão da relação entre a variação dos vínculos emocionais e os momentos da narrativa, com destaque para a relação do jogador com os NPCs.The research presented in this dissertation has its object the characters in games. The goal was to understand the influence of the characters on the emotions of the game experience, taking into account issues relating to carracterização, performance and the role of teachers in the thread of the narrative. For this, an analysis of the narrative structure of the game Portal (Valve Co., 2007) and a qualitative empirical study of the emotional bonds of the players during the game experience was performed. Besides its great success and popularity, this game was chosen because of the importance of the NPC, whose manifestations construct the narrative. The survey found consistency between theories about characters’development, as well as on narrative and emotion, and the experience of players. Furthermore, it was found that the emotional bonds of the players who participated in the study differed in times of high and low tensions and converged in the passages of intermediate twnsions. The visualization of the narrative structure of the game Portal and its comparison with the markings made by players in several passages of the game contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between the variation of emotional bonds and the moments of the narrative, highlighting the relationship between the player and the NPCs.
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Ljunggren, Charlotte, and Malin Kähäri. "Behövs emotionell intelligens i religionskunskapsundervisningen? : En kvalitativ studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Religionsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23623.
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I denna studie utreds om utvecklandet av emotionell intelligens behövs i religionskunskapsundervisningen på gymnasiet, samt om en sådan pedagogik kan motarbeta främlingsfientlighet. I studien utreds också hur kunskap värderas i religionskunskapsundervisningen, samt i skolan i övrigt. I undersökningen har vi använt oss av olika forskares studier, samt kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta elever från två olika skolor i landskapet Gästrikland, Sverige. Vi har sedan jämfört och analyserat resultatet av dessa. Resultatet av undersökningen visade att utvecklandet av social intelligens värderades högst i religionskunskapsundervisningen, samt i skolans övriga ämnen och att social och emotionell intelligens främjar olika sorters förmågor. Vidare visade resultatet att utvecklandet av social intelligens inte kan motarbeta främlingsfientlighet, då denna förmåga endast utvecklar empati i syfte att anpassa sig till samhällets sociala normer, vilket kan leda till en falsk empati. Emotionell intelligens kräver, till skillnad från social intelligens, reflektion över egna och andras känslor, vilket kan leda till att en genuin empati utvecklas, samt en förståelse för människors känslor som allmänmänskliga processer. Således kan främlingsfientlighet motarbetas om emotionell intelligens används i pedagogiken, vilken bör genomsyra alla årskurser och ämnen med hjälp av narrativa metoder.This study investigates if the development of emotional intelligence is needed in religious studies in upper secondary school and if that kind of pedagogy can oppose xenophobia. The study also investigates how knowledge is measured in religious studies and in school in general. We have used different researchers' theories to enrich our own research. We have also utilized quantitative interviews with eight students from two different schools in the county of Gästrikland, Sweden, which we have compared and analyzed. The result of the study showed that the development of social intelligence was the most valued trait in religious studies and also in other subjects in general. We also discovered that social and emotional intelligence encourages different kinds of abilities. Social intelligence can not oppose xenophobia since people who use this kind of intelligence only develops empathy in order to adapt to the social norms of society, which could lead to false empathy. Emotional intelligence, on the other hand, demands that the person in question reflect upon both their own and others' feelings. This can lead to the development of genuine empathy and an understanding of feelings as a general human process. Emotional intelligence can therefore be used to oppose xenophobia, which should permeate all education no matter the grade or subject, with the help of narrative methods.
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Jones, Amy Lynn. "Emotional factors in history learning via digital history narrative creation." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3473.
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This study investigated the potentialities of student produced digital narratives in the context of a secondary history classroom. Using qualitative mixed methods, I employed think-aloud observations, interviews, nonparticipant observations and document collection with 14 high school freshmen as they completed digital history narratives, i.e., historical documentaries, as a requirement of their United States history course. The study found that components of digital history narrative creation evoked strong emotions in secondary high school students. Specifically, working with historical imagery and through a technological medium, study participants showed observable, activity-related achievement emotions; emotions that further resulted in increased motivation towards the successful completion of an original history product. The findings provide evidence that the use of technology and historical imagery possess potential to enhance the emotional quality of students' experience in the history classroom, and furthermore, that certain achievement emotions result in an increase in student motivation.
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Diaz, Brett Anthony. "Correlations Between Vowel Lengths and Emotion in Narratives." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/240.
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This paper looks at the relationship between emotion and vowel length in spontaneous speech, specifically during narratives. It is hypothesized that during emotionally-laden speech, vowel length will be longer in duration than when in non-emotional speech. Data is drawn from the Univerisity of California, Santa Barbara linguistic corpus, with conversations focused on individuals in and around Southern California. The paper builds on work by Dabbs et al., Banse & Scherer, Estes & Adelman, and others regarding the nature of cognitive monitoring, as well as stance as discussed by Ochs & Schieffelin, Ochs, Kärkkainen, Local & Walker, and how emotion is displayed in speech.
Tokens chosen for analysis are /ɑ/, /ɑɪ/, and /ə/. Three of each token in first syllable position is collected for analysis from both emotional and non-emotional speech. Analysis of tokens then takes place by (mean) averaging each token's length for each speaker in each stance, then the total vowel average time is calculated again for each speaker in each stance. Beyond intra-vowel, intra-speaker averages, inter-speaker average is calculated to assess consistency of the vowel length changes between stances. The paper finds that the length of tokens shows an average increase during intraspeaker emotional speech.
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Brown, Erin John. "DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin991751347.
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Raynolds, Nicholas. "the emotional plague." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3773.
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The artist discusses his Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition “the emotional plague” held at the Reese Museum in Johnson City, Tennessee from March 2nd through March 27th, 2020 in which he examines a number of literary and invented narrative subjects influenced by science fiction, Surrealism and the current political climate in an attempt to reconcile the social and the personal through the creative act.
Largely improvisational in their conception, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition reflect ideas derived from writers, thinkers and artists including Wilhelm Reich, J.G. Ballard, W.S. Burroughs and Goya, all distilled through the uncertain territory of Raynolds’ personal, internal landscape. He utilizes an amalgam of characters, tropes, and stories as metaphorical expressions of social psychosis and decay.
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Kopf-Beck, Johannes [Verfasser]. "Identity narratives and group-based emotions / Johannes Kopf-Beck." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080825452/34.
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Zeimet, Amélie. "Emotions in children's narratives and their presence in therapy." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/241862.
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This mixed method study is made up of a narrative study carried out with children and an interview study with practitioner psychologists. The narrative study examined the effects of narrative types, namely a picture book story, a first person narrative and a third person narrative, and age, 7, 9 and 11, on children's use of emotion descriptive words. The lengths of the three story types were used as covariates. A 3*3 ANCOVA was carried out showing that neither the tasks, nor the children’s age, have an effect on children's performance. However, the results show a significant, though small, interaction between age and story type effects when the covariates were jointly controlled for. The limited nature of significant findings is explained. A thematic analysis was carried out with the interview study data. This part of the study inquired about the experience and expectations of practitioner psychologists working therapeutically with children. The focus was mainly on the emotional expression of their young clients. Three main themes emerged including an adultomorphic tendency, developmental uniformity and the importance of a therapeutic relationship.
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Mills, Marie Annette. "Narrative identity and dementia : narrative and emotion in older people with dementia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261749.
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Yao-Juntunen, L. (Lusi). "A job filled with emotions:a narrative study on the emotional dimensions and related emotional intelligence in class teachers’ work." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201901121050.
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This master’s thesis attempts to empirically examine the connection between emotional intelligence and the teaching profession. There has been a growing amount of quantitative or mixed methods research demonstrating the solid interrelation between teachers’ emotional intelligence and teaching profession. However, the concern of teachers’ emotional intelligence and its corresponding actions requires more empirical researches. Thus, the focus of this narrative research lies on finding out how three Finnish class teachers describe the role of emotions and the emotional experiences in their work. Teachers’ stories are analyzed from the perspective of emotional intelligence. The theoretical framework of this thesis is based on Goleman’s theory of emotional intelligence, and the justification of applying Goleman’s theory is made along with other influential theory constructs. Furthermore, this thesis aims to explore how the emotional dimensions in teachers’ work can be seen in light of emotional intelligence particularly in terms of Goleman’s EI construct.
Methodologically, this master’s thesis applies the principles of narrative inquiry. The data has been collected by interviewing three class teachers with varied teaching experiences. The teachers also work in different classroom contexts – a regular Finnish mainstream classroom, an international school classroom and a preparatory classroom. This master’s thesis applies the holistic-content reading approach in data analysis process; each interview is analyzed individually. By using this method, the analysis results provide a two-dimensional finding for each interview. The first dimension offers an overview or general impression of each teacher’s emotional experience related to work. The second-dimension reveals more specific themes related to emotional dimensions in teachers’ work from the perspective of emotional intelligence.
The findings of the thesis suggest that the class teachers describe the emotional dimensions in their work in a similar way, although emphasizing different emotional aspects. These teachers display their acknowledgement of the critical role of emotions through their living experience and reflections. They recognize the urge for teachers to acquire the set of substantial skills which are embedded in Goleman’s emotional intelligence theory: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, motivation and social skills. Furthermore, the findings of this empirical thesis reveal that teachers’ working environment is an emotional place. The teaching job is argued to be an emotional labor which is far beyond simply delivering a lesson. Related to the importance of emotions in teachers’ work, teacher wellbeing as another major theme emerges from the findings. Therefore, this master’s thesis aims to raise awareness of the significance of emotions in teachers’ work and shred lights on both pre-service and in-service teachers’ need of developing emotional intelligence as teaching proficiency. Nevertheless, promoting teacher wellbeing in the profession should also be essential and prevalent.
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Ditlevsen, Christoffer Moe, and Martin Björkman Čehovin. "Den dramatiska kraften i filmmusik, Filmmusikens dramatiska vikt i modern media." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1917.
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När och varför tillsätter man musik till en scen i ett filmscenario? Med informationsresurser och teorier från etablerade medieteoretiker såsom Michel Chion, Oliver Sacks samt Johnny Wingstedt söker vi svaret. Genom beprövade analysmetoder bryter vi ner kritikerrosade filmer för att finna hur musiken präglat dem. Analyserna har sedan sammanfattats och jämförts för att kärnan av dem skall kunna identifieras. I diskussionen slår vi fast att det finns många verktyg att tillämpa när man vill styrka expressiviteten eller känslointensiteten, och varför man tillsätter musik till film; Att antingen stärka ett budskap som gestaltas i bild, eller inducera känslan av något som inte går att tolka genom endast visuella medel. Dessa resultat använde vi sedan för att skapa ett ramverk inför produktion av musik och ljud till Emil. (2014) , en modern samt mörkare tolkning av Emil I Lönneberga (1971) med en underton av ett dysfunktionellt familjeförhållande. Nyckelord: Musik, dramaturgi, film, känslor, analys, narrativ When and why is music implemented to a specific scene in a film? With informational resources and theories from established media-abstractionists like Michel Chion, Oliver Sacks and Johnny Wingstedt, we’re on a hunt for the ultimate answer. With well proven analytic methods we break down critically acclaimed movies in search of how music has characterized them. The outcome of the analyses has been put together to identify their common dramatic core. In the discussion we state that there are many tools available when one wishes to accentuate the expressionistic and emotional effects of a piece, and why one would use these pieces for film. The reason being that of wishing to emphasize a message or feeling show in picture, or induce a feeling of something not visible on screen. The results were then used for the framework which we work within when producing sound and music material for Emil. (2014), a modern, darker interpretation of Emil I Lönneberga (1971). Keywords: Music, dramaturgy, film, emotions, analysis, narrativeDetta är en reflektionsdel till en digital medieproduktion.
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Hardt, Rosa Erica. "Moral agency : an embodied narrative approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25754.
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In this thesis I propose that emotions and rationality are integrated, and jointly constitute our moral agency. I argue against the influential ‘sentimentalist’ claim that emotions are the only constituents of the moral reasons for which we act, by showing that emotions are inextricably bound up with our sensory and conceptual capacities. In contrast, I propose we act for moral reasons when we act in light of the narratives we create and understand. Narrative understanding here is the capacity to inhabit a chain of events. It is embodied and action-‐ orientated, and is co-‐constituted through our emotional, conceptual and sensory capacities.
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Griffith, Ioseff. "Procedural Narrative Generation Through Emotionally Interesting Non-Player Characters." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76708.
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Procedural content generation is a technique used to produce a wide range of computer-generated content in many industries today, the video game industry in particular. This study focuses on how procedural content generation can be applied to create emotionally interesting non-player characters and through this, generate narrative snippets that can immerse and interest a reader. The main points examined are how to achieve this using a modular approach to personality and behaviour, how well readers can distinguish whether motivations and interactions are generated by a computer or written by a human, and to what degree a reader can be immersed in a computer-generated narrative. Procedural narrative could help to reduce workload on large projects or lower costs, and is an area in which there is much room for further research. To answer these problems, a literature review of existing techniques for the creation of emotionally interesting non-player characters was conducted and used to design and construct a prototype implementation for generating procedural narrative. The output of this narrative was dressed up to match the style of a human text and A/B testing was conducted utilising a survey in order to evaluate and compare responses to the two texts. Ultimately, the results showed very little difference between the perception of the human-written text and the computer-written text, with the only aspects found lacking in the computer-written text being clarity of emotion and foreshadowing.
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Koscielicki, Anna Katherine. "Emotion Comprehension and Narrative Ability in Middle Childhood." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556274794072391.
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Marszalek, Agnes. "Beyond amusement : language and emotion in narrative comedy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7273/.
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This thesis builds on cognitive stylistics, humour studies and psychological approaches to literature, film and television to explore how the stylistic features of comic novels and short stories may shape readers’ experience of comedy. I suggest that our responses to written humorous narratives are triggered by two types of stylistic cue: those which lead to amusement and stabilise our experience of comedy, and those which destabilise it by evoking non-humorous emotions associated with experiencing narrative worlds generally. When presented simultaneously, those cues can trigger complex humorous responses in which amusement is experienced alongside other, often negative, emotions. In order to investigate how textual elements can influence our emotional experience of humorous narratives, this thesis examines the ways in which stylistic cues affect some of the main experiential features of the narrative worlds of comedy: the moods evoked by the world, our relationships with characters, and our reactions to plot events. Following on from the Introduction and the Literature Review (Chapters 1 and 2), Chapter 3 explores the ways in which stylistic cues may evoke various moods by establishing, reinforcing and disrupting our expectations. Chapter 4 focuses on the role of characterisation in humorous narratives, concentrating on those cues which encourage us to laugh at narrative characters, and those which evoke other, non-humorous responses to them. In Chapter 5, I consider how the presentation of story events affects our experience of humorous plots. I discuss the cues which add humour to the presentation of otherwise problematic events, as well as those which combine humour with more uncomfortable emotions that stem from our reactions to story structures. Chapter 6, finally, provides a summary of the argument and of the contribution to knowledge made by this thesis. My exploration of the non-humorous side of experiencing narrative comedy offers a key contribution to the study of humorous narratives. By investigating humour as part of a wider narrative world, this thesis moves beyond the analysis of amusing language and towards addressing the complexity of the creation and experience of humour in a narrative world. The interdisciplinary, stylistic-psychological approach adopted here allows for hypotheses to be made not only about the emotional experience of humour in comic novels and short stories, but also about the affective side of narrative comprehension more generally.
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Davies, Helen. "Investigating attachment narratives in couple therapy for depression." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18866.
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Objective: The Exeter Model is an integrative systemic-behavioural and systemic-empathic couple therapy for treating people with depression. ‘Attachment narratives’ is a component of the systemic-empathic approach, which seeks to help the couple understand how past relationships impact on the current relationship with the aim of rebuilding trust and security between the couple. This study sought to examine how attachment narratives in this Model are used by therapists. Method: Narrative Analysis was employed to explore attachment narratives in three couples who had completed therapy in an outpatient clinic where one member of the couple had been referred with depression. Results: Analysis highlighted four specific ways in which therapists used attachment narratives. These consisted of: therapist enabled stories of past relationships to be foregrounded; attachment theory employed to build hypothesis about attachment styles based on past relationships; therapist helped the couple understand how attachment styles maintain unhelpful cycles of relating and introduced alternative relationship narratives enabling improved trust and security. Analysis also demonstrated the structuring of these attachment narratives across the therapy sessions. Conclusion: This study shows that through the therapist paying attention to attachment styles, awareness of unhelpful cycles of relating within couples can be highlighted, and adjustments to how the couple can relate to each other suggested. This exploratory study serves to better inform the use of the Exeter Model.
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Turečková, Šárka. "Using player's facial emotional expressions as a game input : Effects on narrative engagement." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-12883.
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Even self generated facial expression could hypothetically affect emotional engagement in narrative and with it possibly even other aspects of narrative engagement. This thesis evaluates effects of using player's facial emotional expressions as a game decision input in a social situation on narrative engagement and its dimensions. To evaluate this, players' experiences from each of the versions of for this purpose developed game are collected, compared and analysed. The data collection is conducted through Busselle's and Bilandzic's (2009) narrative engagement scale, additional questions, observations and short interview with focus on characters and goals. Effects on narrative engagement couldn't be statistically proven. However, from the analysis was shown, that using player's facial emotional expressions as a game decision input in a social situation could possibly positively affect empathic engagement with characters and enjoyment.
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Frooghi, M. (Mona). "Learning through emotional experiences during teaching practice:a narrative study of four student teachers." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201710062955.
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This thesis focuses on student teachers’ emotional learning experiences during their teaching practice abroad. The aim is to give voice to student teachers and explore what they consider the role of emotional experiences to be in their learning. This thesis draws on transformative learning theory and specifically on emotional transformative learning.
Using purposeful sampling, four student teachers from the Intercultural Teacher Education Program at the University of Oulu, Finland participated in this study. An integral part of the students’ education involves completing teaching practice in a multicultural context which could either be within Finland or out of Finland. Many students choose to do their practice out of Finland, and all those who participated in this study carried out their teaching practice in countries out of Finland.
Data was gathered and analysed within the framework of narrative research. The data was gathered through in-depth interviews with the participants, and were analysed using thematic narrative analysis. Each participant’s narrative was analysed as a whole and themes emerging from their stories in line with the research question were presented. Thematic analysis of narratives was used to analyse similarities in the experiences of participants. The theoretical framework of the study guided the interview and analysis process.
Participants described the kinds of emotions they experienced ranging from negative emotions like confusion, anxiety, shame, frustration and anger to positive ones like joy and fulfilment. They expressed the relevance of these emotional experiences in terms of identifying and resolving practices they perceived as unethical, overcoming fear through the power of example, finding joy in teaching, learning to have an open mind, and understanding their privilege as young European adults. Professional and personal learning was described as being intertwined, with an emphasis however, on personal growth. Deliberate discussions within their teacher training program about the role of teachers emotions was a need raised by the participants.
Considering that this work is situated within the constructivist paradigm and within the framework of narrative research which aims to give voice to very subjective knowledge, it is therefore not the aim of this study to make generalisable results. Effort is made to persuade the readers that I gathered and analysed the data in a trustworthy manner, and that I remain aware of my own biases resulting from my life experiences. The participants in this research have remained anonymous.
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Gadsby, Jonathan. "A dialogical narrative analysis of voice hearers and emotions." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.719999.
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This thesis is the result of a process of Dialogical Narrative Analysis with twelve participants who hear voices that other people cannot hear. It uses the socio-narratology of Arthur Frank to examine their stories about their experiences in the context of the complex and conceptually contested fields of knowledge that are considered relevant to voice-hearing. The 12 voice-hearers present a wide range of ideas and explanatory frameworks about their experiences. Emotions are deliberately part of this thesis and many stories are as moving as they are complex. The author’s own experiences of these stories is also acknowledged and explored. Whereas much research about hearing voices is biological, psychological or occasionally sociological, this research has many aspects of political exploration and the field is understood as one of conflicting vested interests and ideologies. Many ethical considerations come to light, especially concerning forms of power and knowledge within mental health professions and services in the UK, but also within the Hearing Voices Movement, which is seen as a vital movement with a variety of possible histories. One possibility suggested by this research is that voice-hearers are able to tolerate, and benefit from, more dialogical approaches and that those that do may find more successful ways to live with their experiences than those who are subject to the strongly monological emplotments of much professionalised knowledge. Another strong theme is the great influence of neoliberal politics over individuals and notions of ‘health’.
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MacLaren, Jessica Margaret. "Making sense of supervision : a narrative study of the supervision experiences of mental health nurses and midwives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9826.
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This thesis explores mental health nurses’ and midwives’ experiences of supervision. The thesis aims to create a partial and situated understanding of the numerous factors which contribute to practitioners’ experiences of supervision. In particular the thesis investigates the disciplinary context within which supervision takes place, moving from the experiences of individual practitioners to compare and contrast supervision within two distinct professional disciplines which have common areas of interest. Existing research on the topic of supervision in mental health nursing and midwifery tends to reify the concept of supervision. Supervision is assumed to be beneficial, and there is a focus on investigating the effects of supervision without an accompanying understanding of why, how, where and by whom supervision is done. In this thesis, ‘supervision’ is critically conceptualised as indicating a cluster of context-specific practices, and the investigation of supervision is located with the practitioner’s understandings and experiences. The theoretical perspective of the thesis is informed by social constructionism, and ‘experience’ is conceptualised as communicated through meaning-making narratives. The experiences of the study participants were accessed through the collection of data in the form of narratives. Sixteen participants were recruited, comprising eight mental health nurses and eight midwives. Each participant was interviewed once, using a semi-structured interview format. The analysis was influenced by the theories of Gee (1991), Bruner (1986) and Ricoeur (1983/1984), and employed a narrative approach in which the unique meaning-making qualities of narrative were used to interpret the data. The analysis paid close attention to the process of fragmentation and configuration of the data, and produced four composite stories which presented the findings in a holistic and contextualised form. Two themes were identified from the findings: Supervision and Emotions, and Supervision and The Profession, and these were discussed in the light of the two professional contexts explored, and with reference to supervision as an exercise of power. The theme of Emotions recognises the integral role played by emotions in both clinical practice and supervision, and conceptualises supervision and the organisational context as emotional ecologies. Supervision can be constructed as a special emotional ecology with its own feeling rules, and this can both benefit and harm the practitioner. The theme of The Profession responds to the importance of the professional context of supervision practices, and the role of discourses about professional identity and status in determining how supervision is done and with what aim. Comparing supervision practices within two different disciplinary contexts enabled this thesis to challenge tropes about supervision. Supervision cannot be assumed to be either ‘good’ or ‘punitive’, and practices are constructed in the light of particular aims and expectations. This thesis also makes the methodological argument that research into supervision must be politicised and theorised and accommodate contextualised complexity. To simplify or decontextualise the exploration of supervision is to lose the details of practice which make supervision what it is. Supervision is a complex process, enmeshed in its context, and may be constructed to serve different purposes.
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Houvouras, Shannon Krista. "Negotiated concepts body, mind, emotions and self in women's childbearing narratives /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004329.
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Blenkinsopp, John Michael. "Narrative as an emotion-focused coping strategy in career." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/254.
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This thesis develops a theoretical framework for studying the impact of emotion on career, following Kidd's lament that emotion is `an absent presence in career theory' (Kidd, 1998). In the proposed framework, career is treated as a narrative construction (Bujold, 2004) and viewed as a significant component of an individual's identity (McAdams, 1995). Events which disrupt the career narrative will be experienced as disruptive to identity and to the achievement of the individual's goals, and will therefore stimulate emotion which in turn leads to sensemaking aimed at repairing the disruption (Weick et al, 2005). This sensemaking produces a revised career narrative, which the individual subsequently enacts. This proposition is explored through the use of autoethnographic case studies, and the use of this methodology is itself one of the major contributions of this thesis; autoethnography (Ellis, 2004) is an uncommon methodology in social science generally and its use is unheard of within organisational psychology. The case studies allow for theory development, though do not represent an empirical test of the framework, so following the autoethnographic analyses, a refined framework is outlined, together with proposals for research to test the framework. The thesis concludes that narrative coping is the dominant response to emotion in career, and outlines a number of implications for this proposition, including important directions for future research.
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Hagan, Peter Edward. "Communicating Emotion Through Images and Music in Narrative Film." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/845.
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Art can be the bearer of expressive qualities embodied into the work by its creator. The creator of the work can imbed into the work his or her own feelings which are deeper than mere emotions. The emotions can be named, but the feelings are on a deeper subconscious more intangible level for which mere labels can not describe, but which in sensitive hands can be incorporated into the work. In the case of narrative film, which is a collaborative art form, it is the choices made by the film's director which facilitates this process, augmented by the musical score when present. The feelings and emotion embedded into the film are in the form of vital energies which can be felt by the viewer. In narrative film it is the images and music that communicates the emotion to the audience.
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Sudekum, Veronica LaBarge. "An analysis of emotion in two English naturalists' popular scientific narratives." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/649820284/viewonline.
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Árnason, Arnar. "'Feel the pain' : death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1110/.
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This thesis is about death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of three years. I have three main objectives in this thesis. Arguing that the anthropology of death has neglected grief, I seek to describe and explain how people in the North East of England experience grief; how they make sense of the death of their loved ones, and their own reactions to those deaths. Working with interviews with bereaved people and drawing upon work in narrative analysis about the importance of stories in how we think, interact and relate to other people, I focus especially on the stories that bereaved people tell in their grief. I seek to illuminate, too, how grief is managed in the North East. In particular, I focus on bereavement counselling which has, I suggest, assumed something of an authority over how people should grieve. Seeking inspiration from the anthropolo gy of emotion and the Foucauldian notions of discourse and 'technologies of the self', I examine how grief is constituted in bereavement counselling both in training and practice. Finally, I compare how bereaved people experience grief with the construction of grief in bereavement counselling. In bereavement counselling the focus is upon the emotions the bereaved is experiencing in the present; grief is understood as an emotion that has its origin and location inside the individual mourner now. For bereaved people, grief is a part of their ongoing relationships and interactions with their loved ones, and other people around them, and as such it is a feature of the history of those relationships and interactions. The difference between the experiences of the bereaved and the workings of bereavement counselling IS explained by placing the latter in the context of modem govemmentality.
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Smith, Jennifer Lodi. "Transformational Processing: Healthy Identity Functioning in Written Narratives of Emotionally Challenging Life Events." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626423.
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Ellis, Darren. "Narrative, disclosure and psychophysiology : a mixed methods exploration of emotion." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5203.
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The research in this thesis focuses on the ways in which participants represent highly charged negative emotional experiences in narrative form through vocal disclosures, and the relationships between disclosure style and psychophysiological activity. This thesis also attempts to theorise some of the psychophysiological mechanisms that may be associated with the effects of emotional disclosure. Participants were randomly assigned to an emotion (disclosure) group (n = 16) in which they talked about a particular highly charged negative experience, or a neutral (control) group (n = 16) in which they talked about their typical morning. Participants undertook these tasks on three separate occasions, each separated by one week. Skin conductance levels (SCLs) were measured throughout. Statistical analyses were conducted to look at possible SCL differences between the two groups and associations between the disclosure style and SCL variations. Although there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups' SCLs, there were significant differences in SCLs with regard to disclosure style. Qualitative narrative and discourse analyses were undertaken on 4 selected participants, chosen on the basis of clinically significant SCL moves. These analyses revealed that neutral participants also engaged in forms of emotional disclosure through forms of identity negotiation that were constructed within their talk concerning their typical mornings. The qualitative analysis also identified disclosure styles that may be associated with variations in psychophysiological activity.
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Coull, Rosalyn. "Portfolio of compositions : emotion, meaning & narrative in electroacoustic music." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6026/.
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This thesis comprises a portfolio of acousmatic compositions which explore the evocation of emotion and the expression of meaning in electroacoustic music. These works, created and developed in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, embrace both stereo and multichannel formats. In the accompanying Commentary, I also discuss compositional procedures and provide some analytical notes on each work, along with an outline of my own personal development as an electroacoustic composer during the period of the PhD programme.
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Vanegas-Farfano, Minerva, Ramírez Mónica González, and Guzmán Rodrigo Cantú. "Stress and emotion regulation with graphic activities and expressive narrative." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/99978.
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The present study evaluated instructions in graphic and expressive writing tasks as stress and emotion regulation activity aids. Six experimental groups were composed of thirty university students. Effects were measured with the Mexican versions of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). The groups were similar in the perceived stress and affect measures in time 1. Results demonstrated positive changes in both variables in time 2,for the intervention groups. The results indicate that it is necessary to evaluate the types of instructions given in experimental and clinical settings.Se evalúa el impacto de las instrucciones dadas para el uso de actividades gráficas y escritura expresiva como una forma de apoyo en el manejo del estrés y las emociones a partir de seis grupos experimentales con treinta estudiantes universitarios. Los efectos fueron estimados mediante la adaptación mexicana de la Escala de Estrés Percibido y la adaptación de Escala de Afecto Positivo y Negativo. Los grupos fueron similares en su estrés percibido y en emociones en el tiempo 1. Los resultados indican que ambas variables mejoran tras la intervención (tiempo 2), mostrando diferencias entre los grupos. Se concluye que es necesario evaluar el tipo de instrucciones en ambientes experimentales y clínicos considerando estas diferencias.
O propósito do estudo foi avaliar o impacto das instruções dadas para o uso de atividades gráficas e escritura expressiva como uma forma de apoio no controle do estresse e das emoções. A amostra foi formada por trinta estudantes universitários. Deste modo formaram-se seis grupos experimentais, cujos efeitos foram medidos mediante a adaptação mexicana da Escala de Estresse Percebido e a adaptação da Escala de Afeto Positivo e Negativo. Os grupos foram similares no estresse percebido e nas emoções no tempo 1. Os resultados indicam que ambas variáveis melhoram depois da intervenção (tempo 2); mas com diferenças entre os grupos. Deste modo se conclui que é necessário avaliar o tipo de instruções em ambientesexperimentais e clínicos considerando estas diferenças.
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Ljung, Egeland Birgitta. "Berättelser om tillhörighet : om barn med migrationsbakgrund på en mindre ort." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35992.
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This doctoral thesis centres on children of immigrant background, who live and go to school in a non-urban community. The emphasis is on their narrated experience of a sense of belonging in and out of school. The study is based on interviews with 13 children at two different schools in two small-sized municipalities, and aimed at identifying the factors in their narratives that impact on their sense of belonging as well as the related conditions and means of action. The interviews were conversational and most of the children were interviewed on three occasions. Each result chapter analyses a specific dilemmatic space related to a sense of belonging, such as peer relationships, trips to the “home country”, and managing in school. In particular, the emotions related to the children’s narrative positionings are analysed as well as the narrative resources employed in their narration. The results show that their sense of belonging is produced in the interplay between the conditions of immigration and the socio-cultural conditions in the small-sized community. The children describe extensive relational and emotional work to enter into comradeship. Dimensions of being like and unlike gain importance and involve clothing, height and colour of skin. Several of the children describe how they cope with ‘racifying’ and other excluding processes of ‘othering’ on a daily basis. Trips to the home country emerge as central events in their lives and it is clear that a sense of belonging is connected to place attachment and anchored in embodied sensory emotions. Managing school is important to all the children but is attributed different meanings in the pursuit of the long-term goal of employment. In conclusion, the children’s experiences are discussed in terms of two interwoven and sometimes separate projects emerging in the children's narratives: the Swedishness project and the family project.Vad innebär det att vara barn med migrationsbakgrund om man bor och går i skolan på en mindre ort? Vad och hur berättar barnen om sin vardag och sina sociala relationer i och utanför skolan? Om dessa frågor handlar den här avhandlingen och det specifika forskningsintresset är känsla av tillhörighet i och utanför skolan. Denna studie bygger på intervjuer med barn med migrationsbakgrund som bor och går i skolan på två mindre orter i Sverige. De har alla erfarenhet av att antingen de själva eller någon av deras föräldrar har brutit upp från det sammanhang där de tidigare levt. Barnen har därmed ofta erfarenhet av att tillhörighet blir något som utmanas. Resultaten visar hur känsla av tillhörighet formas i samspelet mellan migrationens villkor och villkor på den mindre orten. Barnen beskriver ett omfattande relationellt och emotionellt arbete i berättelser om kamratrelationer, resor till hemlandet och om att klara skolan. Barnens erfarenheter kan ses som relaterade till två tydliga projekt: svenskhetsprojektet och familjeprojektet. Dessa projekt vävs samman i barnens berättelser och svenskhetsprojektet kan både vara och inte vara en viktig del i ett familjeprojekt.
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Lindgren-Hansen, Kaitlyn. "Unsettling religion: anger and race in The bondwoman's narrative." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6790.
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This thesis examines the clash of seemingly dissonant passages in Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative to consider how the text can and should anger the reader through the juxtaposition of multiple literary genres. In particular, the placement of scenes of gothic horror alongside expressions of piety unsettles the reader, forcing them to confront a complex array of social institutions (slavery, racism, religion, and the justice system) and their own complicity in those systems. Drawing on philosophical analyses of the structure and the morality of emotion, I argue that the text is intended to elicit anger that is both moderated by reason and rooted in love. I contest the notion that anger necessarily includes a problematic desire for payback and suggest that the desire that accompanies anger is better conceptualized as a desire for recognition of an injury that may include payback but is not fixated on payback. My reading of The Bondwoman’s Narrative contests multiple claims that the moments of dissonance in the text were a result of the author’s lack of skill. Instead, I posit that these juxtapositions are intentional and seek to engage the reader in a process of ethical formation that literature is uniquely able to provide. Anger is an essential part of the formation process, pushing the reader to consider their own complicity in injustice and to work to change unjust social systems.
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Liu, Yi. "Case Study of Perception with Motion Graphic Music Video: The Relationship between Narrative & Representation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407410136.
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Wozniak, Robert. "Toward a Transdisciplinary Model of Highly Emotional Experiences in Narrative Media : An Inwards Sound Design Approach." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14620.
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With an ever increasing pool of theories designed to help the creator instill emotion, we’reapproaching a point where even the most stubborn audience can’t fully escape the grasp thatfilm can have on their feelings. Thanks to multidisciplinary research for the cognitive andsympathetic structures that make up emotions (Blincoe, 2011; Dolan, 2002; Ekman, 1973;Panksepp, 2004), a larger understanding for emotions has been built. In succession, anintegrative emotion model is becoming a realistic proposition (Loui & Harrison, 2014). Inthis thesis I’m suggesting that to make such a model a success, an understanding of the targetgroup is a requirement. I argue that each project has unique criteria found in the individual,rather than in the current general understanding of the human mind and body, and it’s appliedknowledge in modern design theories. This angle requires new tools, which I attempt tocreate based on Scherer’s (2001) Sequential Check Theory, in combination with establishedethnographic methods. In turn the tools will be tested on a local self-defined group as anintroduction to the workflow and data collection. To prove the model’s transdisciplinarypotential I attempt to apply this data in a real world sound design context, where this methodis hypothetically less effective than earlier stages in production, like writing. To generatequalitative data, the films, in the form of two pilot episodes of a series, will be shown to thetarget group. One episode without our theory applied, and the other with changes accordingto data collection and model directions. Rounding it out with a questionnaire regardingelicited emotion, and qualitative interviews, it stands as a sufficient base for discussion, albeitrather lacking as proof of concept. The thesis ends with a discussion of potential futureapplications where models like this one could be applied.Med den ständigt ökande mängden teorier designade för att hjälpa skaparen att framhävakänslor börjar vi nå en punkt där till och med den mest envisa åskådaren inte kan undgågreppet som film har på våra känslor. Tack vare multidisciplinär forskning om de kognitivaoch sympatiska strukturerna som står för uppbyggnaden utav känslor (Blincoe, 2011; Dolan,2002; Ekman, 1973; Panksepp, 2004), så har det byggts en bättre förståelse kring ämnet.Därav har en integrativ känslomodell blivit en realistisk proposition (Loui & Harrison, 2014).I denna uppsats föreslår jag att för att göra en sådan modell en succé så är förståelse förmålgrupp ett krav. Jag argumenterar för att varje projekt har unika kriterier som hittas hosindividen, snarare än i den generella förståelse för sinne och kropp, och dess appliceradekunskap i moderna designteorier. Den här vinkeln kräver nya verktyg, som jag försöker skapabaserat på Scherers (2001) Sequential Check Theory, i kombination med etnografiskametoder. I sin tur så testas verktygen på en lokal egendefinerad grupp som en introduktion förarbetssättet och datasamlandet. För att bevisa modellens transdisciplinära potential försökerjag applicera datan i ett verkligt ljuddesignkontext, där metoden hypotetiskt sett är mindreeffektiv än i tidigare stadier inom produktion, som skrivandeprocessen. För att genererakvalitativ data så har filmerna, i form av två pilotavsnitt i en serie, visats för gruppen. Ettavsnitt utan applicerad teori, och ett med ändringar enligt den insamlade datan och modellensriktlinjer. Avrundas med ett frågeformulär som berör de framhävda känslorna utav avsnitten.Detta står som en tillräcklig bas för diskussion, om än aningen otillräcklig för konkreta bevis.Uppsatsen avslutas med diskussion om potentiella framtida applikationer där modeller somdenna kan florera.
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Creek, SJ. "EX-GAY MOVEMENT NARRATIVES AND THE IDENTITY WORK OF ACTIVE, FORMER AND MARGINALIZED PARTICIPANTS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/373.
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The ex-gay movement in the United States has, for the last three decades, argued that there can be "freedom from homosexuality." Available movement narratives shape how individuals struggling with homosexual desires understand their past, present and future. To gain insight into the identity work of people involved in the movement, those who have left and those who exist on the margins, I engaged in collected 31 semi-structured interviews, engaged in participant observation of an ex-gay conference and conducted a narrative analysis of movement narratives. In three journal article style manuscripts, I discuss my findings concerning the narrative identity work of each group.