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Motte, Warren. "Negative Narrative." L'Esprit Créateur 53, no. 2 (2013): 56–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2013.0019.
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Silva, Américo Junior Nunes da. "Constituindo-se Professora que Ensinará Matemática nos Anos Iniciais: o que Revelam as Narrativas Quanto a Alfabetização Matemática?" Jornal Internacional de Estudos em Educação Matemática 14, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17921/2176-5634.2021v14n1p61-72.
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ResumoEste artigo é recorte de um doutoramento, resultado de uma pesquisa narrativa, e objetiva investigar o que revelam as narrativas de estudantes do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), construídas durante dois encontros da disciplina “Matemática: conteúdos e seu ensino”, sobre a ludicidade, o ensinar matemática no ciclo de alfabetização e o constituir-se professora que ensinará matemática nos anos iniciais. Nesse percurso, escolhemos as narrativas enquanto método e fenômeno a ser estudado. Constituímos diários de formação, produzidos pelas cinco participantes e por mim, e as entrevistas narrativas realizadas, como textos de campo. O processo de análise realizado se deu por meio da análise narrativa. As narrativas produzidas revelaram algumas dificuldades conceituais sobre a matemática e o processo de alfabetização matemática. Ao longo dos encontros, percebemos que as diferentes estratégias formativas propostas contribuíram para repensar essas crenças e ressignificar essas marcas negativas e as dificuldades que apresentaram.Palavras-chave: Alfabetização Matemática. Formação Inicial de Professores. Narrativas. Diários de Formação.
AbstractThis article is an excerpt from a PhD, the result of a narrative research, and aims to investigate what the narratives of students in the Pedagogy course at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) reveal, built during two meetings of the discipline “Mathematics: Contents and their teaching ”, On playfulness, teaching mathematics in the literacy cycle and becoming a teacher who will teach mathematics in the early years. Along this path, we chose narratives as a method and phenomenon to be studied. We constituted the training diaries, produced by the 05 participants and mine, and the narrative interviews carried out, as field texts. The analysis process carried out took place through narrative analysis. The narratives produced revealed some conceptual difficulties about mathematics and the mathematical literacy process. Throughout the meetings, we realized that the different training strategies proposed contributed to rethink these beliefs and reframe these negative marks and the difficulties they presented.
Keywords: Mathematical Literacy. Initial Teacher Training. Narratives. Training Diaries
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Holt, Terence E. "Narrative Medicine and Negative Capability." Literature and Medicine 23, no. 2 (2004): 318–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2005.0008.
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Kim, Jungah. "Nomadic Narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette." Humanities 8, no. 2 (March 28, 2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020065.
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Various critics have examined Charlotte Brontë’s Villette’s missing ending as a proof of Lucy Snowe’s unreliability in leaving the narrative purposefully ambiguous to escape her possible negative ending. I, however, interpret the ending as one of the ways in which she actively and positively refuses the concept of closure, and rather, creates, what I would call, a nomadic narrative. Nomadic narrative is term I coined based on the idea of Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic theory and Georg Lukács’s The Theory of the Novel to re-imagine Lucy’s narration and narrative, not as a concealment, but as an embracement of her nomadic subjectivity and acknowledgement that she has no true end. I further argue that nomadic narrative is a narrative that fractures and recreates itself through its gaps and rewritten portions, gaining its own sense of agency. Unlike narratives that only fixate on protagonists, nomadic narrative becomes an open and posthuman space that allows the incorporation of nonhuman subjects.
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Sher-Censor, Efrat, Izabela Grey, and Tuppett M. Yates. "The intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narrative affective content and narrative coherence." International Journal of Behavioral Development 37, no. 4 (June 26, 2013): 340–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413482760.
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Intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narratives about the mother–child relationship was examined in a sample of 198 Hispanic (59.1%), Black (19.2%), and White (21.7%) mothers and their preschool child. Mothers’ narratives were obtained with the Five Minute Speech Sample and were coded for negative and positive affective content and narrative coherence. Preschoolers’ narratives were collected with the MacArthur Story Stem Battery and were coded for the portrayal of the mother-child relationship and narrative coherence. Across ethnoracial groups, maternal narrative coherence, but not narrative affective content, was related to preschoolers’ positive portrayal of the mother–child relationship. Our findings highlight the importance of maternal narrative coherence for understanding intergenerational continuity of relational representations.
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Camia, Christin, Olivier Desmedt, and Olivier Luminet. "Exploring autobiographical memory specificity and narrative emotional processing in alexithymia." Narrative Inquiry 30, no. 1 (March 10, 2020): 59–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18089.kob.
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Abstract Alexithymia encompasses difficulties in identifying and expressing feelings along with an externally oriented cognitive style. While previous studies found that higher alexithymia scores were related to an impaired memory for emotional content, no study so far investigated how alexithymia affects autobiographical narratives. Narrating personal events, however, is impaired in emotionally disturbed patients in that they tend to recall overgeneral descriptions instead of specific episodes, which impairs their narrative emotional processing. Adopting a qualitative approach, this pilot study explored autobiographical memory specificity, cognitive, perceptual and emotional word use, and narrative closure in eight alcohol-dependent participants scoring very high or low in alexithymia. High alexithymia participants showed no reduced memory specificity but impaired emotional processing and narrative elaboration, especially when talking about negative events. Presumably because of this we found no group differences regarding narrative closure. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive and emotional processing, avoidance strategies, and narrative psychology.
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Fitzgerald, Kaitlin, Melanie C. Green, and Elaine Paravati. "Restorative Narratives." Journal of Public Interest Communications 4, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v4.i2.p51.
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Restorative narratives are stories that highlight how people recover from adversity. Researchers have proposed that this storytelling approach may provide a way to share negative news without emotionally overwhelming audiences. Instead, restorative narratives may decrease the need for emotion regulation processes and as a result, increase the willingness to help those in need. In Study 1, a restorative narrative elicited more positive emotions and an increased willingness to volunteer compared to a negative and control version of the same story. In Study 2, the restorative narrative again evoked more positive emotions and higher hypothetical donations to a relevant charity. Study 2 also varied the narrative ending and found that restorative narratives may need to end positively to maintain their effects.
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Huang, Manxia, and Tilmann Habermas. "Narrating ambiguous loss: Deficiencies in narrative processing and negative appraisal of consequences." Journal of Clinical Psychology 77, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): 2147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23146.
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Mansfield, Cade D., Kate C. Mclean, and Jennifer P. Lilgendahl. "Narrating traumas and transgressions." Narrative Inquiry 20, no. 2 (December 10, 2010): 246–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.20.2.02man.
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Experiencing personal growth via reflection on negative events is well established. Yet, we know less about how people process and grow (or not) from different types of negative events, and how such narrative processing might differentially predict important outcomes, in this case, wisdom and well-being. Eighty-five community members participated in an online study examining the narrative processing and self-perceptions of traumas and transgressions, and how narrative processing predicted wisdom and well-being. Results showed few differences in the processing of traumas and transgressions, though the latter was viewed as less important to the self compared to the former. Further, growth in transgressions predicted wisdom, and narrative resolution of transgressions predicted well-being. In contrast, for trauma narratives well-being was predicted by the interaction of resolution and narrative complexity. Discussion focuses on the role of event types in narrative processing in relation to wisdom and well-being.
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Weiste, Elina, Nanette Ranta, Melisa Stevanovic, Henri Nevalainen, Annika Valtonen, and Minna Leinonen. "Narratives about Negative Healthcare Service Experiences: Reported Events, Positioning, and Normative Discourse of an Active Client." Healthcare 10, no. 12 (December 12, 2022): 2511. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122511.
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Narratives about clients’ service experiences in healthcare organizations constitute a crucial way for clients to make sense of their illness, its treatment, and their role in the service process. This is important because the client’s role has recently changed from that of a passive object of care into an active responsible agent. Utilizing Bamberg’s narrative positioning analysis as a method, and 14 thematic interviews of healthcare clients with multiple health-related problems as data, we investigated the expectations of the client’s role in their narratives about negative service experiences. All the narratives addressed the question of the clients’ “activeness” in some way. We identified three narrative types. In the first, the clients actively sought help, but did not receive it; in the second, the clients positioned themselves as helpless and inactive, left without the care they needed; and in the third, the clients argued against having to fight for their care. In all these narrative types, the clients either demonstrated their own activeness or justified their lack of it, which—despite attempts to resist the ideal of an “active client”—ultimately just reinforced it. Attempts to improve service experiences of clients with considerable service needs require a heightened awareness of clients’ moral struggles.
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Norrick, Neal R. "Negation in narrative." Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 373–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17028.nor.
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Abstract Negation in narrative has been described primarily as a resource for expressing evaluation, and secondarily in its role in establishing orientation, but this article investigates a range of ways negated statements can contribute directly to complicating action. Negation works through presupposition in the rhetorical figure of paralipsis with phrases like “to say nothing of.” Reporting “I don’t see how she got in” presupposes that she got in. Semantic double negation in phrases like “never fail to” contributes to the complicating action. Idiomatic negatives like “didn’t go out” and negatives matching expectations like “didn’t go to sleep” mirror positive actions in the narrative model. Constructions coupling main clause negation with a positive embedded clause produce statements entailing actions in the chain of events, as in “I couldn’t face going back.” Taken together, these constructions provide powerful resources for contributing positively to the dynamic narrative model with negative statements.
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Arezzo, Francesca, Gennaro Cormio, Vera Loizzi, Gerardo Cazzato, Viviana Cataldo, Claudio Lombardi, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Leonardo Resta, and Ettore Cicinelli. "HPV-Negative Cervical Cancer: A Narrative Review." Diagnostics 11, no. 6 (May 26, 2021): 952. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11060952.
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Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most frequent cancer in women worldwide. HPV infection is associated with the majority of CC cases, but a small proportion of CCs actually test negative for HPV. The prevalence of HPV among CC histotypes is very different. It has been suggested that HPV-negative CC may represent a biologically distinct subset of tumors, relying on a distinct pathogenetic pathway and carrying a poorer prognosis, than HPV-positive CCs. Although, the discordance in terms of sensitivity and specificity between different HPV tests as well as the potential errors in sampling and storing tissues may be considered as causes of false-negative results. The identification of HPV-negative CCs is essential for their correct management. The aim of this narrative review is to summarize the clinical and pathological features of this variant. We also discuss the pitfalls of different HPV tests possibly leading to classification errors.
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Robertson, Alan, Chris Venter, and Karel Botha. "Narratives of Depression." South African Journal of Psychology 35, no. 2 (June 2005): 331–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630503500210.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the life narratives of a group of self-identified depressed individuals. A qualitative research approach, specifically a multiple case study method was used, consisting of interviews in narrative format with people who were suffering from depression. The common themes seemed to be: the participants attached negative meanings to their life experiences; they used negative language, particularly in the form of generalisations, to articulate their stories; and they found socio-political narratives to be subjugating. The study suggested that a narrative approach to therapy could be fruitful in the treatment of depression, especially through helping people to find positive meanings for life experiences; re-authoring life narratives using fewer negative generalisations; confronting and transcending subjugating political stories; assisting the individual to discover and build upon unique outcomes; and encouraging the extemalisation of depression.
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Moyer-Gusé, Emily, John M. Tchernev, and Whitney Walther-Martin. "The Persuasiveness of a Humorous Environmental Narrative Combined With an Explicit Persuasive Appeal." Science Communication 41, no. 4 (July 17, 2019): 422–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547019862553.
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Entertainment narratives commonly feature explicit appeals to underscore important content therein. This strategy may also undermine the subtle approach that characterizes narrative persuasion. This experiment examined the effects of a pro-environmental public service announcement (PSA) combined with an entertainment narrative on environmental intentions and behaviors. Results revealed that the combination of an environmental narrative and PSA led to fewer intentions to engage in environmentally friendly behaviors than exposure to the environmental narrative alone. The PSA combined with the environmental narrative also led to greater perceived persuasive intent and, among those who held negative views about the environment, greater reactance and less environmentally friendly behavior.
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Vanaken, Lauranne, Patricia Bijttebier, Robyn Fivush, and Dirk Hermans. "An investigation of the concurrent and longitudinal associations between narrative coherence and mental health mediated by social support." Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 204380872110682. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20438087211068215.
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The coherence of autobiographical narratives is thought to be reflective of individuals’ psychological adjustment. However, results are not always replicable, the longitudinal nature of the relation has remained largely unaddressed, and there is limited research on mechanisms that may explain the relation between coherence and mental health. Therefore, in a large longitudinal study, we investigated the concurrent and prospective associations of narrative coherence with mental health, as well as mediational effects of perceived social support. Concurrently, correlations showed that total narrative coherence was associated with higher psychological well-being, fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, and fewer negative social interactions. Cross-sectional regressions showed that total narrative coherence was predictive for better psychological well-being and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, and that chronological coherence predicted depressive symptomatology. These relations were all mediated by perceived negative social interactions. Prospectively, over a 5-month time interval, higher coherence of positive narratives predicted relative decreases in depressive and anxious symptoms. These relations were also mediated by the amount of perceived negative social interactions. Individuals who were more coherent about their past positive life events experienced a relative decrease in depressive and anxious symptoms over a 5-month time interval because they experienced fewer negative interactions with their social network over time.
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Sapiezynska, Ewa. "The Media and Power in Postliberal Venezuela." Latin American Perspectives 44, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x16661185.
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Two narratives dominate the literature about the state of freedom of expression in postliberal Venezuela, and they have few points in common, since they depend on different conceptualizations of the notion of freedom of expression. While the traditional liberal narrative focuses on the negative freedom that prohibits state interference, the postliberal narrative is based on positive freedom that encompasses the collective right of self-realization, particularly for the previously marginalized. During the government of Hugo Chávez, the discourse of freedom of expression was renewed, placing it in the context of power relations, accentuating positive freedom, and emphasizing the role of the public and community media. The establishment of the international public channel TeleSUR has revived the 1970s debate about the right to communication and contributed to the creation of a new Latin American-ness. En la literatura predominan dos narrativas acerca del estado de la libertad de expresión en la Venezuela posliberal las que tienen pocos puntos en común porque parten de visiones distintas del concepto de la libertad de expresión. Mientras la narrativa liberal tradicional enfoca sólo en la libertad negativa que previene la injerencia estatal, la narrativa posliberal se centra en la libertad positiva que abarca la autorrealización del derecho colectivo, también de los previamente marginalizados. Durante el gobierno de Hugo Chávez el discurso acerca de la libertad de expresión se renueva, insertando el concepto en el contexto de las relaciones de poder, acentuando la libertad positiva y enfatizando el rol de los medios públicos y comunitarios. El establecimiento del medio público internacional TeleSUR revive los debates sobre el derecho a la comunicación de la década de los 70 y aporta a la creación de una nueva Latinoamericanidad.
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Eng, Bennie, and Cheryl Burke Jarvis. "Consumers and their celebrity brands: how personal narratives set the stage for attachment." Journal of Product & Brand Management 29, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 831–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-02-2019-2275.
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Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how consumer attachment to celebrity brands is driven by perceived narratives about the celebrity’s persona, which triggers communal (i.e. altruistic) relationship norms. The research investigates the differential role of narratives about celebrities’ personal vs professional lives in creating attachment and identifies and tests moderating effects of narrative characteristics including perceived source of fame, valence and authenticity. Design/methodology/approach Three online experiments tested the proposed direct, meditating and moderating relationships. Data was analyzed using mediation analysis and multiple ANOVAs. Findings The results suggest relationship norms that are more altruistic in nature fully mediate the relationship between narrative type and brand attachment. Additionally, personal narratives produce stronger attachment than professional narratives; the celebrity’s source of fame moderates narrative type and attachment; and on-brand narratives elicit higher attachment than off-brand narratives, even when these narratives are negative. Practical implications The authors offer recommendations for how marketers can shape celebrity brand narratives to build stronger consumer attachment. Notably, personal (vs professional) narratives are critical in building attachment, especially for celebrity brands that are perceived to have achieved their fame. Both positive and negative personal narratives can strengthen attachment for achieved celebrity brands, but only if they are on-brand with consumer expectations. Originality/value This research is an introductory examination of the fundamental theoretical process by which celebrity brand relationships develop from brand persona narratives and how characteristics of those narratives influence consumer-brand attachment.
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O’Callaghan, Paul, Lesley Storey, and Harry Rafferty. "Narrative analysis of former child soldiers’ traumatic experiences." Educational and Child Psychology 29, no. 2 (2012): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2012.29.2.87.
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Narratives are an integral part of every culture and narrative exposure serves not only therapeutic purposes but also a social and political agenda (Schauer et al., 2005). This paper will focus on the second aim – using Narrative Analysis to inform and raise awareness of the experiences of child soldiers in northern Uganda. The children involved in this study range in age from 13 to 17 years (M=15.25) and spent from 12 to 108 months (M=48) with the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. The paper begins by providing a context for the narratives by exploring the extant psychological literature in the field, the conflict in Uganda and the psychological impact of soldiering on children. Next, the paper outlines the steps taken to analyse the children’s narratives before the study’s findings are discussed in relation to how the children use distancing during narration to protect themselves from overwhelming negative emotions and how traumatic bonding appears more strongly in child soldiers who fought with the rebels than those who did not. The way abductees make sense of their ‘new’ reality as child soldiers through juxtaposition and internalisation is also outlined, as is the finding that a mother’s death can result in greater psychological distress than exposure to extreme violence. Lastly, policy implications and future research directions based on these findings are proposed.
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Caulfield, Timothy, Alessandro R. Marcon, Blake Murdoch, Jasmine M. Brown, Sarah Tinker Perrault, Jonathan Jarry, Jeremy Snyder, et al. "Health Misinformation and the Power of Narrative Messaging in the Public Sphere." Canadian Journal of Bioethics 2, no. 2 (March 20, 2019): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1060911ar.
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Numerous social, economic and academic pressures can have a negative impact on representations of biomedical research. We review several of the forces playing an increasingly pernicious role in how health and science information is interpreted, shared and used, drawing discussions towards the role of narrative. In turn, we explore how aspects of narrative are used in different social contexts and communication environments, and present creative responses that may help counter the negative trends. As traditional methods of communication have in many ways failed the public, changes in approach are required, including the creative use of narratives.
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de Graaf, Anneke, José Sanders, and Hans Hoeken. "Characteristics of narrative interventions and health effects: A review of the content, form, and context of narratives in health-related narrative persuasion research." Review of Communication Research 4 (2016): 88–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.12840/issn.2255-4165.2016.04.01.011.
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In recent years, many studies have been conducted on persuasive effects of narratives in a health context. A striking feature of this research area is the diversity of the narratives that are used in the various studies. Narratives that convey a health message differ widely on a large number of dimensions related to the content, form and context. We expect that these characteristics are potential explanatory factors in the effectiveness of the narratives. To provide an overview of the different characteristics of narratives in health effects research and of the persuasive effects that were found, we review 153 experimental studies on health-related narrative persuasion with a focus on the narrative stimuli. The results show that: a) with regard to the content, showing the healthy behavior in a narrative (as opposed to the unhealthy behavior with negative consequences) may be associated with effects on intention. Narratives that contain high emotional content are more often shown to have effects. b) With regard to the form, for print narratives, a first-person perspective is a promising characteristic in light of effectiveness. c) With regard to the context, an overtly persuasive presentation format does not seem to inhibit narrative persuasion. And d) other characteristics, like character similarity or the presentation medium of the narrative, do not seem to be promising characteristics for producing health effects. In addition, fruitful areas for further research can be found in the familiarity of the setting and the way a health message is embedded in the narrative. Because of the diversity of narrative characteristics and effects that were found, continued research effort is warranted on which characteristics lead to effects. The present review provides an overview of the evidence for persuasive narrative characteristics so far.
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Meutia, Inten, and Budiawan Cimarko Putra. "Narrative Accounting Practices in Indonesia Companies." Binus Business Review 8, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v8i1.1944.
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This research aimed to reveal creative accounting practices in the form of narrative accounting occuring in companies in Indonesia. Using content analysis, this research analyzed the management discussion and analysissection in the annual report on the group of companies whose performance had increased and declined in several companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. This research finds that the narrative accounting practices are applied in these companies. The four methods of accounting narratives are found in both groups of companies. There are stressing the positive and downplaying the negative, baffling the readers, differential reporting, andattribution.
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Larsen, Gorm. "Subjektivitet i fortællinger." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 34, no. 101 (April 2, 2006): 140–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v34i101.22330.
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Udsigelsens fortolkninger Subjectivity in Narratives: Interpretations of EnunciationAn ongoing discussion in literary theory is about whether the narrative text generally, has narrator or not. The respectively positive and negative interpretations illustrate two paradigms in the narrative theory. Gorm Larsen shows that the two positions are connected by the concept of enunciation: Käte Hamburger and Émile Benveniste introduced the concept of enunciation and argued at the same time that only I-narratives have a structure of enunciation. In the view of poststructural theory this has been radicalised into a complete denial of the narrator. Gorm Larsen argues however that the different interpretations of enunciation are not in conflict with each other, but – from a narratological and structural point of view – a matter of different levels on which subjectivity in narrative can be understood; this shows that subjectivity in narrative is a complex state of affairs.
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Gillison, Fiona B., Elisabeth B. Grey, Hannah E. McConnell, and Simon J. Sebire. "Using narrative messages to improve parents' experience of learning that a child has overweight." British Journal of Child Health 1, no. 5 (October 2, 2020): 220–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/chhe.2020.1.5.220.
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Background: Providing feedback to parents that their child has overweight often elicits negative reactance. Aims: To investigate the acceptability and feasibility of providing theoretically-informed narrative messages to reduce negative reactance, alongside the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) feedback informing parents when their child has overweight. Methods: A mixed-methods design: interviews with parents of primary school-aged children explored responses to the narratives; a pilot randomised trial examined the feasibility, acceptability and promise of enclosing narratives with NCMP feedback. Findings: Interview participants found the narratives acceptable and indicated they could help lessen negative reactance. Pilot study data suggested 65% of parents could identify with the characters, with evidence of elaboration (applying the story to one's own situation) evident in 47% of those reading the accounts.
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Apavaloaie, Loredana, Timothy Page, and Loren D. Marks. "Romanian Children’s Representations of Negative and Self-Conscious Emotions in a Narrative Story Stem Technique." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 10, no. 2 (May 28, 2014): 318–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i2.704.
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This research uses children’s story-stem play narratives to investigate dimensions of negative emotional expression. Fifty-one Romanian children between 6 and 11-years old participated in the study. Children’s narratives were coded for three basic negative emotions and five self-conscious emotions. Parents completed a general questionnaire for demographic data and the amount of time they spent with their children. Differences were found for frequencies of negative emotional representations in relation to the specific story-stems in which they occurred. Girls were more likely than boys to enact in their narratives guilt feelings coupled with apology following some wrongdoing. Children who spent more time with parents enacted significantly less anger and fear. Simultaneous expressions of multiple negative emotions were observed in the narrative responses of these middle childhood-aged Romanian children. While findings should be viewed with caution, owing to the small and homogeneous sample, new directions for future research with this assessment method are indicated.
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May, Vanessa. "Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.1.08may.
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Lone motherhood tends to be viewed as something a woman is, an identity that defines the woman. This article takes a different route into lone motherhood by focusing on identity construction in the life stories of four Finnish lone mothers. Faced with dominant narratives that define lone motherhood in negative terms, the narrators construct a counter-normative account of their lone motherhood through a dialogue with different cultural narratives on motherhood, independence and family. Furthermore, the social category of lone motherhood is not one that the lone mothers themselves adopt in their narrative constructions of the self. Instead, they attempt to create space for themselves within the normative narratives on motherhood and womanhood, thus refuting the idea that lone motherhood is constitutive of identity. At the same time, the life stories reveal how powerful the cultural narratives on motherhood and family are – lone mothers can challenge them, but they can never escape these narratives completely. (Lone Motherhood, Narrative Identity, Life Stories, Cultural Narratives)
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Mellis, Alexandra M., Sarah E. Snider, and Warren K. Bickel. "Narrative theory: II. Self-generated and experimenter-provided negative income shock narratives increase delay discounting." Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 26, no. 2 (April 2018): 113–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pha0000168.
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Budziszewska, Magdalena, and Karolina Hansen. "“Anger Detracts From Beauty”: Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Narratives About Anger." Journal of Adolescent Research 35, no. 5 (April 29, 2019): 635–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0743558419845870.
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In a mixed-design narrative study, we explore how adolescent boys and girls represent experiences of anger and how their narrations are linked to self-esteem and anxiety. Polish teens from three nonurban public schools ( N = 101, 55% female, Mage= 15.5) wrote narrative accounts of their typical anger experience. We use a thematic analysis framework to analyze the patterns in these narratives. Boys and girls told stories within school, family, and relationship contexts. However, boys provided more stories that focused on the theme of everyday incidental instances of anger, whereas girls provided more stories focused on the theme of negative inner experiences. In-depth analysis resulted in the emergence of two complex narrative patterns: Anger as Outburst and Anger as Burden. Anger as Outburst described heated anger related to difficulties in self-control and aggression and was more characteristic of boys. Anger as Burden contained stories of prolonged anger related to negative self-evaluation and was more characteristic of girls. Anger as Burden was also related to higher anxiety and lower self-esteem. We conclude that in the given cultural context, adolescents lack positive narratives to frame their anger adaptively.
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Pólya, Tibor, and István Csertő. "Emotion Recognition Based on the Structure of Narratives." Electronics 12, no. 4 (February 11, 2023): 919. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040919.
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One important application of natural language processing (NLP) is the recognition of emotions in text. Most current emotion analyzers use a set of linguistic features such as emotion lexicons, n-grams, word embeddings, and emoticons. This study proposes a new strategy to perform emotion recognition, which is based on the homologous structure of emotions and narratives. It is argued that emotions and narratives share both a goal-based structure and an evaluation structure. The new strategy was tested in an empirical study with 117 participants who recounted two narratives about their past emotional experiences, including one positive and one negative episode. Immediately after narrating each episode, the participants reported their current affective state using the Affect Grid. The goal-based structure and evaluation structure of the narratives were analyzed with a hybrid method. First, a linguistic analysis of the texts was carried out, including tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and morphological analysis. Second, an extensive set of rule-based algorithms was used to analyze the goal-based structure of, and evaluations in, the narratives. Third, the output was fed into machine learning classifiers of narrative structural features that previously proved to be effective predictors of the narrator’s current affective state. This hybrid procedure yielded a high average F1 score (0.72). The results are discussed in terms of the benefits of employing narrative structure analysis in NLP-based emotion recognition.
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Trezza, Domenico, Gabriella Punziano, and Ciro Clemente De Falco. "Mappare il racconto, raccontare l’emergenza. Voci digitali dai territori." Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali 11, no. 21 (November 30, 2021): 163–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/cambio-10255.
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Related to the first period of the COVID-19 pandemic (March-June 2020), some recent studies on the application of content analysis of geolocalized tweets (Bashar et alii 2020, Punziano et alii 2020) have demonstrated the negative relation between the Coronavirus spread (with Northern Italy most affected) and the polarity of social narratives about the pandemic. In brief, the «resilient» social narrative of the most impacted regions has corresponded to a negative and worried emergency narrative of the less affected regions. In relation to epidemiological data, the second phase of the pandemic (also referred to as the «second wave», in autumn 2020) has been very different from the first (ISSa 2020). The severity of emergency, without considering questions about the reliability of the first wave data (Istat 2020a), has been more relevant and homogeneous across Italy. The study questions whether there are differences between the geography of contagion and that of the narrative. Given the increasingly homogeneous spread of the virus, the assumption has been that the digital arena also has ended up showing a narrative more united on negative sentiments. The issue is addressed by analyzing a corpus of geolocalized tweets, extracted in the period from the new October lockdown to the partial and fragmented pre-Christmas reopenings in 2020. Following the application of a model combining text mining and GIS analysis, the most recurrent themes in social discourse on Twitter were mapped. This geography of emerging social narratives (COVID-Issues) compared with the geography of contagion spread (COVID-Spread) and the norms (COVID-Measures) allowed to detect the trend in the relationship of these three dimensions during the second emergence from COVID-19.
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Botha, Derek. "‘Anorexic’ Adolescents: Negative and Positive Resistances in Narrative Therapy." Journal of Constructivist Psychology 32, no. 2 (March 9, 2018): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2018.1433089.
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QAIWER, Shatha N. "A STUDY OF TENSE SHIFT AS A RESOURCE FOR IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION." International Journal of Humanities and Educational Research 03, no. 02 (April 1, 2021): 74–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2757-5403.2-3.7.
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This study focuses on tense variation as linguistic features of narrative performance using Schiffrin’s (1981) theory of tense variation supported by Labov’s (1972) and Ochs and Cap’s (2001) frameworks of narrative structure. It shows that historical present also performs evaluative function and appears in restricted clauses in progressive aspect indicating the overlap on time between two actions. Shifts into narrative past tense also perform an evaluative function and appears in contexts narrating unexpected event within the complication. Generic and nominalising actions are used to express negative evaluation of an opponent based on an earlier premise. These findings can bring new insights into the way politicians construct arguments in self and other presentation since nominalising negative actions implies comparing the self to an external other. This is achieved in association with stance taking and evaluative commentaries provided by politicians as strategies of positive self and negative other presentation. The study provides a detailed analysis of the linguistic features stated earlier in relation to identity construction and self-presentation exemplifying the use of HP
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Egner, Justine. "#ActuallyAutistic: Using Twitter to Construct Individual and Collective Identity Narratives." Studies in Social Justice 16, no. 2 (March 11, 2022): 349–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v16i2.2675.
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Employing Critical Autism Studies and Narrative Analysis, this project examines how autistic Twitter users engage in narrative meaning-making through social media. By analyzing the hashtags #ActuallyAutistic and #AskingAutistics this project broadly explores how individuals construct identity when lacking access to positive representations and identity communities. Answering the research question, “How do autistic people construct individual and collective identity narratives through Twitter?,” findings indicate that autistic Twitter users use their social media presence to build virtual learning communities. Common knowledge about autism is often oversimplified and highly medicalized. Therefore, autistics use Twitter to make meaning of their experiences that are not represented within cultural notions of what it means to be autistic. Autistic Twitter users reject medicalized narratives by contesting stereotypes, flipping negative narratives into positive stories, re-inscribing “deficiencies” as beneficial, and resisting rehabilitation and “cure.” Users do important social activist work by building strong autistic communities in ways that counter current negative representation, constructing positive self-affirming individual and community identities and resisting eugenic notions that autistic people are “less valuable.”
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Evaldsson, Ann-Carita, and Helen Melander Bowden. "Co-constructing a child as disorderly: Moral character work in narrative accounts of upsetting experiences." Text & Talk 40, no. 5 (September 25, 2020): 599–622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-2079.
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AbstractThis study explores how displays of strong emotions in narrative accounts of emotional experiences provide a context for invoking moral accountabilities, including the shaping of the teller’s character. We use a dialogical approach (i.e., ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology) to emotions to explore how affective stances are performed, responded to and accounted for in episodes of narrative accounts. The analysis is based on a case study that centers on how a child’s walkout from a peer dispute is managed retrospectively in narrative constructions in teacher-child interaction. It is found that the targeted child uses heightened affect displays (crying, sobbing, and prosodic marking), to amplify feelings of distress and stance claims (incorporating reported speech and extreme case formulations) of being badly treated. The heightened stance claims work to justify an oppositional moral stance towards the reported events while projecting accountability to others. The child’s escalated resistance provides a ground for the teacher’s negative uptakes (negative person ascriptions, counter narratives, and third-party reports). The findings shed light on how narrative renderings of upsetting experiences easily become indexical of the teller’s moral character and adds to dispositional features of being over-reactive and disorderly, in ways that undermine a child’s social position.
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Keough, Willeen. "(Re-)telling Newfoundland Sealing Masculinity: Narrative and Counter-narrative." Montreal 2010 21, no. 1 (May 9, 2011): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1003046ar.
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Throughout the controversy over Newfoundland sealing in the latter twentieth century, anti-sealing protest and counter-protest movements, government policy, the media, and the broader arena of international opinion all became sites for the creation of knowledge about Newfoundland sealing masculinity. Sealers engaged with these various discourses as they negotiated their own masculine identities. Recent interviews with sealers of the period reveal the complexity of this process. Not surprisingly, they challenged negative portrayals by their environmentalist critics. More intriguingly, they often positioned themselves outside a Newfoundland cultural narrative of “jolly ice-hunters” and undaunted heroes of the ice- floes. This article explores the disconnect between a romanticized, static cultural understanding of sealing masculinity and the more grounded, nuanced masculinity articulated by sealers and their local communities.
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Lilgendahl, Jennifer Pals, Veronica Benet-Martinez, Margaret Bishop, Katharine Gilson, Lindsay Festa, Chloe Levenson, and Rena Rosenblum. "“So Now, I Wonder, What Am I?”: A Narrative Approach to Bicultural Identity Integration." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 10 (September 22, 2018): 1596–624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022118801555.
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Individuals socialized in multiple cultures actively construct their bicultural identity in the context of relevant life events. However, the content and meaning of these experiences, as subjectively constructed and understood by the individual, remain largely unexplored in relation to biculturalism outcomes. Using a narrative approach, two studies of U.S. biculturals examined how memories about the experience of being bicultural (“bicultural memory narratives”) related to bicultural identity integration (BII). BII describes having cultural identities that are blended and exist harmoniously within the self (vs. having dissociated and conflicting identities). In Study 1, bicultural college students shared two bicultural memory narratives, which were coded for the past event valence, exploratory processing, and ending valence (positive vs. negative ending). Most reported memories about at least somewhat negative experiences, and yet narrating those events with positive endings was predictive of higher BII, even after controlling for other factors, such as trait affect. In Study 2, second-generation bicultural adults ranging in age from 18 to 62 shared narratives about memories of bicultural conflict, which were also coded for exploratory processing and positive resolution. Similar to Study 1, positive resolution predicted higher levels of BII, independent of other factors. Bicultural identity conflict was found to decrease with age across adulthood. Findings for exploratory processing were inconclusive and suggest that its role in BII may fluctuate over time and be dependent on several factors, including age, type of memory, and time spent exploring bicultural identity.
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Fleming, Catherine. "Defoe’s Unchristian Colonel: Captivity Narratives and Resistance to Conversion." Lumen 40 (November 3, 2021): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1083174ar.
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Daniel Defoe’s fictional autobiographies often contain a puritanical conversion narrative, but Colonel Jack’s narrator is unique in his problematized relationship to Christian conversion. Alert to the negative implications of mercenary conversion, Defoe presents in Colonel Jack a hero who not only revels in his complex ploys to evade the law, but explicitly rejects conversion to Christianity at several points in the narrative. By reading Colonel Jack alongside narratives of European enslavement and incarceration, I suggest that in this text Defoe deliberately reproduces the form of the popular Barbary captivity narrative. This subgenre of narrative portrays conversion as a force to be resisted, informs Jack’s reluctance to embrace Christianity, and ultimately suggests that living in a Christian nation may actually be a hindrance to conversion, making Catholic South America a milieu more conducive to the protagonist’s religious transformation than Protestant Virginia.
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Bedard-Gilligan, Michele, Lori A. Zoellner, and Norah C. Feeny. "Is Trauma Memory Special? Trauma Narrative Fragmentation in PTSD." Clinical Psychological Science 5, no. 2 (March 2017): 212–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702616676581.
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Seminal theories posit that fragmented trauma memories are critical to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that elaboration of the trauma narrative is necessary for recovery. According to fragmentation theories, trauma narrative changes, particularly for those receiving trauma-focused treatment, should accompany symptom reduction. Trauma and control narratives in 77 men and women with chronic PTSD were examined pre- and posttreatment, comparing prolonged exposure (PE) and sertraline. Utilizing self-report, rater coding, and objective coding of narrative content, fragmentation was compared across narrative types (trauma, negative, positive) by treatment modality and response, controlling for potential confounds. Although sensory components increased with PE ( d = 0.23–0.44), there were no consistent differences in fragmentation from pre- to posttreatment between PE and sertraline or treatment responders and nonresponders. Contrary to theories, changes in fragmentation may not be a crucial mechanism underlying PTSD therapeutic recovery.
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Santosa, Hedi Pudjo, Primada Qurrota Ayun, and Triyono Lukmantoro. "MISOGYNISTIC IN DIGITAL MEDIA : HATE SPEECH NARRATIVES TOWARDS BEAUTY INFLUENCERS." Interaksi: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi 11, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 166–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/interaksi.11.2.166-174.
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Huge numbers of social media users in Indonesia creates a phenomenon of beauty influencers. Selebgram or Instagram celebrities, starts to become a trend when artists wearing veils become a fashion icon for certain groups of communities. The influencers try to expose new identities which were considered old fashioned. However, this beauty influencer phenomenon also initiates hate speech trends. Nature of social media allows people to comment, spread information, and give opinions freely and anonymously, and even create the tendency to write misogynistic narratives. This research is a descriptive textual study using a narrative approach. Narrative in this connection refers to status updates on Instagram, narratives are understood as “small stories” that capture the whole variety of narrative activities that are not represented in the big or canonical narratives. The results of this study indicate that hate speech against female celebrities means that they receive negative judgments and comments from netizens by using religious statements and social norms of society. They provide comments by giving bad labels and giving judgments for their behavior
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Лозова, Ольга, and Олена Литвиненко. "Narrative Indicators of Adolescents’ Maladaptive Cognitive Schemas." PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 26, no. 1 (November 12, 2019): 228–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-1-228-245.
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Introduction. The article presents the results of a study of adolescents` personal narratives. The general aim of the study was to identify narrative indicators of adolescents’ maladaptive cognitive schemas. This aim was achieved by virtue of realization of such tasks as: to identify the specific text categories (indicators) that indicate the maladaptive schemas and to determine the predictive power of each category (indicator). In the course of theoretical analysis, there were systematized the approaches to the understanding of personal narratives and “self-texts”. There also was generalized the concept of maladaptive cognitive schemas, and were defined textual categories which can be reflected in the narratives of people who have certain maladaptive schemas.
Methods. The methods of the empirical study were Dusseldorf Illustrated Schema Questionnaire for Children and the content-analysis of personal narratives. Statistical processing of the obtained data and determination of the predictive power of each narrative category were performed with the help of the method of recursive division trees.
Results. As a result of the empirical study was it was found that certain categories in the personal narratives of adolescents allow us to predict the manifestation of individual maladaptive schemas. There were identified narrative indicators, able to predict fourteen of the eighteen schemas. It was determined that the knowledge of narrative indicators of maladaptive cognitive schemas can be used within the psychological counseling and therapy at the stage of gathering primary information, as well as in the context of purposeful psychological impact.
Conclusions. There were described the topical prospects for further scientific development of the problem, which were to expand the categorical structure of content analysis, which would allow to find indicators of four schemas that remain unclear, as well as to widen the age range of respondents and to test the hypothesis about the existence of a link between the personal narratives of adults and their maladaptive schemas. There was made an assumption that modification of a personal narrative can accelerate therapeutic work aimed at eliminating the negative impact of maladaptive schemas on a person's life.
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Secko, David M., Stephany Tlalka, Morgan Dunlop, Ami Kingdon, and Elyse Amend. "The unfinished science story: Journalist–audience interactions from the Globe and Mail’s online health and science sections." Journalism 12, no. 7 (September 8, 2011): 814–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911412704.
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Science journalists are increasingly confronted with the ability of audiences to comment on science stories, create and share multimedia content, and blog about science. Yet, there is a surprising lack of literature exploring the narrative impacts of such changes on science journalism. To fill this gap, this article draws on the concept of the ‘unfinished’ science story to provide a narrative analysis of story-commentary sets from a Canadian newspaper (the Globe and Mail). It shows how the authority to ‘finish’ a scientific narrative now faces: (1) the opening up of science journalism narratives to raw experience; (2) the reframing of issues by audience comments; (3) the emergence of a journalists–audience ‘stress test’; and (4) the heavy existence of negative commentary.
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Tsygankov, Andrei P. "The dark double: the American media perception of Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, 2008–2014." Politics 37, no. 1 (June 23, 2016): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395715626945.
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This article combines quantitative and textual analysis of editorials in leading American newspapers devoted to Russia’s internal politics from 2008 to 2014. Despite rapprochement under President Dmitry Medvedev, the media image of Russia has been overwhelmingly negative since 2008. Negative media editorial opinions of Russia reflect fears of autocratic political systems that are represented as a dangerous mirror image of the American system. To maintain this binary, aspects of Russian politics that did not fit into the neo-Soviet autocracy narrative were ignored. An original contribution of the article is its identification of key frames used by leading American media outlets to construct a narrative about contemporary Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy. It demonstrates that this narrative is instrumental in confirming domestic perceptions of American national identity that emphasize its association with freedom at home and leadership of the ‘free world’ abroad. As such, these findings are significant for reaffirming the importance of media framings, associated narratives, and control over them to global governance and soft power.
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Vettori, Giulia, Costanza Ruffini, Martina Andreini, Ginevra Megli, Emilia Fabbri, Irene Labate, Sara Bianchi, and Chiara Pecini. "Investigating Children’s Ability to Express Internal States through Narratives and Drawings: Two Longitudinal Studies during Pandemic." Children 9, no. 8 (August 3, 2022): 1165. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9081165.
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The COVID-19 pandemic emergency has challenged children’s socio-affective and cognitive development. It is essential to capture the modulation of their emotional experience through ecological and children-friendly tasks, such as written narratives and drawings. This contribution investigates the impact of pandemic experience (2020–2021 waves) on the internal states and emotions of the primary school age children, according to a longitudinal research approach through narratives (study 1 n = 21) and drawing tasks (study 2 n = 117). 138 Italian children were examined during COVID-19 three (study 1) or two waves (study 2). Children’s written narratives were codified on the basis of narrative competence and psychological lexicon. Children’s drawings were codified based on social/emotional, physical, and environmental elements. Results of narrative texts showed a lower psychological lexicon relating to positive emotions and a greater psychological lexicon relating to negative emotions only in the study sample group during the first lockdown compared to the previous and subsequent periods. Children’s drawings of themselves showed a decrease of negative emotions during the third pandemic wave in comparison to the first pandemic wave. Results inform mental health services, school practitioners, and parents about the importance of written narratives and drawings for promoting well-being in the developmental age.
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Ahmad, Mumtaz, Amara Javed, and Asim Aqeel. "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women." Global Regional Review VI, no. I (March 30, 2021): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(vi-i).02.
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This article explores the relationship between Native American lands/environment and the women from ecocritical /ecofeminist perspectives. It has been postulated that while the Euro- American accounts of the history, culture, indigenous women and their relation with nature/land project stereotypical, negative images, Louise Erdrich, through the employment of hybrid narrative techniques combining Eurocentric and Native American modes of narration, has reconfigured the Native American women's environmental identity/subjectivity. This study conducts discourse analysis of the two richly thematic environmental narratives of Louise Erdrich to establish the interconnectivity between women and lands within the realm of ecofeminism. The primary texts explored include Tracks and Love Medicine. The study's contribution is it's highlighting the significance of the Native American Ecofeminist narratives that consider environmental issues to be human issues and thus positively affect the human attitude towards nature.
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Villar, Feliciano, Rodrigo Serrat, and Stephany Bravo-Segal. "Giving Them a Voice: Challenges to Narrative Agency in People with Dementia." Geriatrics 4, no. 1 (February 12, 2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics4010020.
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In this paper, we argue that the capacity for narrative agency is significantly compromised in individuals with dementia due to at least three factors: (a) Dementia itself, which causes increasing difficulties in constructing and articulating coherent and meaningful stories, and sharing them with others; (b) cultural narratives about dementia, which promote an extremely negative and pessimistic view of those with the disease; and (c) the convergence of these two last factors, which can lead to caregiving interactions that do not support storytelling and can even stop people with dementia from telling stories. We highlight the importance of narrative care, which involves interventions that focus on the person and their unique life narrative. In narrative care, people with dementia are treated not as impaired patients defined by the disease, but as human beings. In doing so, people with dementia can have their own voices back, which is silenced and discredited so many times.
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Vasquez, Camilla. "Narrativity and involvement in online consumer reviews." Narrative Inquiry 22, no. 1 (December 31, 2012): 105–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.1.07vas.
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Drawing on recent work on digital narratives of personal experience in online genres such as email, social networking sites, and blogs, the present study explores narrative features in 100 online consumer reviews of hotels. Focusing on negative reviews, or “Rants,” from popular consumer travel platform, TripAdvisor, the article examines both canonical and genre-specific structural features of narratives, as well as some of the discursive resources used by online narrators to engage their audiences, and to draw them into their stories. Specifically, the study explores the use of story prefaces and related forms of second person address, represented speech and mental states, and deictic shifts, and suggests that narrative features such as these are useful in attracting the attention of an audience amidst a vast universe of online information.
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Christophe, Véronique, Gérald Delelis, Pascal Antoine, and Jean-Louis Nandrino. "Motives for Secondary Social Sharing of Emotions." Psychological Reports 103, no. 1 (August 2008): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.103.1.11-22.
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This study provides new evidence of motives of secondary social sharing of emotions. In a retrospective study, 140 female ( Mage = 29.4 yr., SD=12.8) and 116 male ( Mage = 29.5 yr., SD=13.1) participants were asked to recall a recent situation in which they had talked to a third person about a positive or negative, low or high intensity emotional narrative they had heard. 70% of the respondents reported having secondarily shared the reported event rapidly after the narration with several persons and at several times. Moreover, they not only described the event, the speaker's reaction and their own reactions, but also revealed the identity of their first confidant. Participants reported having spread the emotional narrative more widely in the high negative condition in order to seek emotional support and social comparison.
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Isakoglou, Foivos, Kristi S. Multhaup, Margaret P. Munger, and Brian A. Eiler. "The Effects of Genre and Reading Difficulty on Narrative Transportation: The Mediating Role of Affect." Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research 26, no. 4 (2021): 422–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.jn26.4.422.
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Stories offer a refuge from people’s mundane troubles and commitments by immersing them in intricate fictional worlds. Narrative transportation, i.e., the feeling of being “lost” in the world of a story, has been found to be an important measure of involvement with narratives (Green & Brock, 2000). Numerous studies have examined the impact of literary fiction on readers’ theory of mind, but the relationship between genre and narrative transportation remains relatively unexplored. Black and Barnes (2015a) proposed that exposure to literary fiction produces higher narrative transportation than exposure to nonfiction texts. The present investigation sought to replicate this finding while (a) measuring baseline trait empathy, (b) addressing a confound of genre and reading difficulty noted in prior work, and (c) assessing the mediating role of affect on the relationship between genre and narrative transportation. Empathy was positively correlated with narrative transportation, r = .39, p < .001. Narrative transportation was higher for participants who read challenging fiction and nonfiction than for participants who read easy fiction, F(2, 891) = 5.79, p = .003, ηp2= .013. Positive affect, but not negative affect, mediated the effect of challenging versus easy text conditions on narrative transportation, b = –.16, se = .04 (95% CI [–.25, –.08]). These findings suggest that narrative transportation may not be dependent on story genre, but rather on a given text’s difficulty level and the positive emotions experienced while reading.
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Pier, John. "Narrative instabilities." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6, no. 2 (January 12, 2020): 148–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2020-0011.
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Abstract Taking Nabokov’s Pale Fire as its tutor text, this chapter seeks to demonstrate that narrative functions as a complex or dynamic system. Due to the novel’s nonlinear and multiply configured format, a series of dissipative structures is provoked whereby states near equilibrium, on reaching states far from equilibrium under the weight of multiple causality, putting the system “beyond the threshold of stability” and “at the edge of chaos,” perpetually self-organize. Taking a cue from nonequilibrium thermodynamics, instabilities, it is argued, are inherent to narrative discourse. This calls into question the pertinence of the logic of linearity (“event A causes event B”) as well as the scope of such postulates as the isomorphic relation between sequence and narrative as a whole, a postulate that frames narrative as a closed system following the principle of conservation of energy in classical mechanics. As the poem “Pale Fire” in Nabokov’s novel advances linearly, it is constantly disrupted by the “Commentary” which is related to the poem only tangentially, each text fragmenting the other and self-organizing into new meanings. The effect is to render salient in narrative discourse the complexity science principles (in addition to those mentioned above) of irreversibility (the “arrow of time”) vs. reversibility, sensitivity to initial conditions, negative vs. positive feedback and the symmetry-breaking effects of bifurcation. The manifestation of these principles in Nabokov’s novel raises fundamental questions about the structuring of narrative, but also about the conceptual framework through which narrative at large might be approached.
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Grytsenko, O. A. "NARRATIVES OF DECOMMUNIZATION IN UKRAINE’S CULTURAL SPACE." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (4) (2019): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2019.1(4).09.
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The article offers a cultural study of one of key aspects of the decommunization process in contemporary Ukraine, formally started by the in- troduction of so-called ‘four decommunization laws’ adopted on April 4, 2015, as manifested in the country’s cultural space through major narra- tives that describe, interpret and mythologize this process from various cultural and ideological positions and viewpoints. The methodological background for the study is provided by well-known cultural studies’ approach that, according to Paul Du Gay, Stuart Hall and others, presumes a systemic analysis of five key aspects of a given cultural phenomenon, namely, its production (creation), its consumption (reception), its regulation (by the state and other actors), its representations in culture (including narratives about it), and identities shaped or transformed by it. In this article, the penultimate part of a cultural study of Ukrainian decommunization is presented in detail. An overview of dozens of articles, columns, interviews and other texts about the decommunization in Ukrainian and foreign media demonstrates that there seem to be four main groups of decom- munization narratives, tentatively named: the ‘purification of Ukraine’ narrative, the regional (or decentralized) narrative, the ‘Bandera-ization’ narrative, and the liberal narrative, each with its characteristic modes of emplotment (from epic romance to satire), with its civilization perspective, its set of sym- bols and values, its ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’. Unsurprisingly, those portrayed as heroes in affirmative narratives (that of ‘purification’, for instance) tend to become villains in negative narratives, the head of Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych being the most prominent one.
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Henry, Elaine, and Marietta Peytcheva. "Earnings-Announcement Narrative and Investor Judgment." Accounting Horizons 32, no. 3 (April 1, 2018): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/acch-52121.
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SYNOPSIS This study examines how emphasis framing in narrative disclosures, and the investor characteristics of numeracy and persuadability, affect investors' ability to discriminate between firms' better and worse financial performance. In an experiment with 264 participants from the general population, we manipulate emphasis framing in earnings announcement narratives as neutral, consistent, or inconsistent with the firm's performance. We find that investors are better able to distinguish between good and poor firm performance when the accompanying disclosure emphasizes information that is consistent with the firm's performance. Further, persuadability reduces, but numeracy increases, investors' ability to distinguish between good and poor performance. However, our results also indicate that the inclusion of biased numerical information in narrative disclosures may have a greater negative effect on higher numerates than on lower numerates, consistent with theory suggesting that more numerate individuals tend to focus on and draw affective meaning from numbers. JEL Classifications: M41.