“How ‘ya gonna keep’em down at the farm now that they’ve seen Paree?”: France in Super Hero Comics by Nicolas Labarre

“…Any extensive reading of super hero comics will reveal that the representation of France within the genre borrows mostly from touristic clichés, using the country as a foreign, exotic yet not too disorientating setting. Narrative economy and gradual refinements have led to the creation of a codified, consensual and unrealistic depiction of France, centered mostly on Paris and the Eiffel Tower. …”
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Analyzing the effectivity of evidence-based practice in health science higher education: a narrative review by Victória Guzzo da Silva, Dafne Port Nascimento, Sarah Beatriz Obadovski Alves Nascimento, Amanda Costa Araujo

“…OBJECTIVE: To explore the effectiveness of evidence-based practice in higher education and understand its teaching methods. DESIGN AND SETTING: Narrative review was conducted at the Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul, Brazil. …”
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Référence multimodale dans les narrations d’enfants : les gestes servent-ils à clarifier les expressions référentielles ambiguës ? by Corrado Bellifemine, Camille Dupret

“…Growing up, they gradually master several multimodal resources and elaborate more complex discourse, using referring expressions often accompanied by gestures that increasingly correspond to the linguistic context and specificities of the interactional setting. Narratives are a complex discursive genre in which the management of referential chains remains difficult for the child for a long time, and gestures may be used to clarify ambiguous referring expressions. …”
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