Exploring deaf student teachers’ academic experiences at a teacher training college in Rwanda by James Maizere

“…The study employed a narrative case study. The study population comprised two TTC administrators, two deaf student teachers, all the sixteen tutors who taught the deaf student teachers, and two library workers. …”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…I argue that these works minimize not just the number of conversations in direct speech, but also the process by which David makes conversational inferences; the (now third-person) narrator often fills conversational gaps for the child reader. …”
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Analyse de l’effet L1 dans l’émergence de l’auxiliation en français L2 by Cyrille Granget

“…A first study analyzed and compared the use of AVCs in French L2 narratives produced by 7 Japanese speakers and by a group of 7 speakers with a different L1, German, at the same level of proficiency. …”
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Exploring Chinese Students’ Learning Experiences in a Private Higher Education Institution in the Philippines towards a Proposed Global Engagement Initiative Program by Shao Peng

“…Using a phenomenological research method incorporating open-ended questionnaires, the study analyzed narratives and reflections from the participants to understand their academic, cultural, and personal adaptation processes. …”
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The discovery of high endothelial venules. A historical note by Domenico Ribatti

“…The results were summarized in a short narrative historical review based on published papers on the role of HEVs in immunity, inflammation, and cancer. …”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…By contrasting the many praises that Curitiba has received as a “green city” with tragic-comic and ominous scenarios played out in Trevisan’s narratives, this study points to the socio-historic vestiges of its past as a colonial city and how that social experience still marks local behavior. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…The adoption of a first-person narrator allows Fagan to speak out against surveillance that consists in control only and to oppose dehumanizing institutional discourse.…”
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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect by Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin

“…Predictive modeling suggested the emergence of seven new research themes for 2024–2028, including the interaction between metonymy and discourse, its role in multimodal communication, and its application in social and cultural narratives.DiscussionThis study underscores the interdisciplinary nature of metonymy research, bridging linguistic, cognitive, and social dimensions. …”
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“Never break them in two. Never put one over the other. Eve is Mary’s mother. Mary is the daughter of Eve”: Toni Morrison’s Womanist Gospel of Self by Claude LE FUSTEC

“…Carefully following the chronology of Toni Morrison’s novels until Paradise (1997), this article focuses on Morrison’s rewriting of the Fall as the American “grand narrative” and basis of a powerful sexist and racist ideology via a number of black female characters variously characterized as outcasts. …”
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Early, integrated palliative care for people with chronic respiratory disease: lessons learnt from lung cancer by Anne M. Walker, Donald R. Sullivan, Phan Nguyen, Anne E. Holland, Natasha Smallwood

“…Many lessons can be learnt from lung cancer care, particularly as the model of care delivery has transformed over recent decades due to major advances in the diagnostic pathway and the development of new treatments. This narrative review aims to summarize the evidence for specialist palliative care in lung cancer and chronic respiratory disease, by highlighting seven key lessons from lung cancer care that can inform the development of proactive, integrated models of palliative care among those with chronic respiratory disease. …”
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A Critique on the Book Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism in Iran: Myth and Reality by Siavash Gholipour

“…The book Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism: Myth and Reality is a narrative about the conflicts of ethnic groups in Iran after the First World War until the last decades of the 14th century. …”
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“Social Elevator”: Research of Affirmative Action Program by E. A. Tarasova

“…It was assumed that students of the program would show higher performance than their peers admitted on a general basis – this assumption follows from qualitative research that found that students of this program possess a progressive narrative of overcoming inequality. Regression with dummy variables based on administrative data on student performance and survey data on the socio-economic status of students are used for the analysis. …”
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Literary seduction: Minds, bodies and non-textual phenomena by Michael BURKE

“…Deliberations into what makes a literary text persuasive, what seduces readers to continue reading once the act of reading started, is often a combination of (a) what is written (the themes), (b) the order and manner in which the events of the story are presented (the narrative structure and how the text is filtered, and (c) how a story is written (the style and rhetoric of the text). …”
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THE ROLE OF MYTHOLOGY IN THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PARADIGM OF DEVELOPMENT by Тарас ТИМОШЕНКО

“…Being actually rehabilitated, the myth is considered as an important factor in the process of forming not only cultural symbols but also narratives. It complements rational knowledge, helps to understand archetypal and symbolic aspects of human reality, which are not always comprehended with the help of rational methods of cognition. …”
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The Concept of Medieval Stasis: From Medieval Studies to Medievalism, from Medievalism to Political Culture by Maksym W. Kyrchanoff

“…It is shown that 1) the concept of medieval stasis in modern historiography is gradually perceived as part of the intellectual history of the medieval studies, 2) medievalism perceives the stability of feudal structures as its positive characteristic, 3) the use of the concept of medieval stasis in modern medievalism allows to construct the preservation of chronologically prolonged images of Middle Ages, 4) within the framework of the idealization of the Middle Ages, modern medievalist discourse synthesizes the “real” and the “magical”, which excludes the development of narrative structure and the transformation of social, economic and political relations and institutions, 5) the archaic vision of the Middle Ages through the prism of stasis confirms the limitations of the cognitive capabilities of medievalism.…”
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L’Histoire de l’Espagne à l’épreuve du musée. Les expériences du Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2008-2023) by Nicolas Morales

“…The aim is to measure the tangible limits of this approach and, above all, the current difficulty in extricating ourselves from a narrative inherited from Franco's historiography and reassumed during the democratic transition.…”
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There is no Such Thing as a Free Market by Dirk van den Heuvel

“…To deconstruct the still hegemonic narrative of free market ideologists in the realm of housing, this article looks at the provocative position of the German-British architect Patrik Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects. …”
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Nicole Bergk Pinto, Étude et édition critique du Tournoiement Antecrist : dit allégorique attribué à Huon de Mery by Nicole Bergk Pinto

“…The Tournoiement Antecrist is an allegorical poem, composed around 1235 by a cleric named Huon. Though narrating the age-old battle between Good and Evil, the author succeeded in creating an original work that integrates both lay culture and humour. …”
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The Biphasic Effect of Vitamin D on the Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular System by Armin Zittermann

“…This narrative review summarizes beneficial and harmful vitamin D effects on the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular system. …”
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The use and impact of virtual reality programs supported by aromatherapy for older adults: A scoping review protocol. by Lillian Hung, Joey Wong, Haopu Ren, W Ben Mortenson, Angelica Lim, Jennifer Boger, Christine Wallsworth, Yong Zhao

“…Data analysis and synthesis will be discussed by the whole research team, mapped in the literature table and accompanied by a narrative summary. Scoping review data will be collected from publicly available articles; research ethics approval is not required. …”
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