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THE POWER OF STORY: USING PERSONAL NARRATIVE, COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND PODCASTING WITH YOUNG ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

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Pierson S. J.

Teaching English with Technology

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2014

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vol. 14

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issue 4

3-16

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One way to ensure a high quality, personalized literacy program for English language learners is to use the learners’ own lives and experiences as curriculum. Creating spaces for students to compose and share stories results in a strong sense of community facilitates the development of authentic literacy skills and increases student motivation and achievement. Present day, multimedia, networked computers provide a range of informational communicative and publishing tools that can be used to dissolve classroom walls, bringing the students out and the world inside. Moreover, students who work on projects using computers demonstrate increased cooperation and collaboration. For this project, young adult learners from diverse cultures, studying English as a second or other language at a community college made use of computer technology to compose personal narratives and share them with others. Results indicate that using student stories as texts and sharing those texts via podcasting enhances literacy skills, increases student confidence and selfefficacy, and inspires them to work for the common good. The study involved only two small classes of multicultural students, but the strong success of the project suggests using students’ life stories as curriculum and computer technology as a means of sharing is a powerful model of instruction.

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Terapeutyczne aspekty wywiadu narracyjnego w perspektywie prowadzenia badań biograficznych

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Karkowska M.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2018

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issue 50

107-120

EN

The article is devoted to an attempt to present a biographical approach in pedagogical research, taking into account not only exploratory but also therapeutic functions of narrative interviews. The reflections focus of looking for the answer to the question: whether and to what extent telling a story of one’s life (especially marked by traumatic experiences) may contribute to integrating the past and the present, increasing self-awareness, and thus (re-)constructing the narrator’s identity? I ask a question about the conditions to be met in order for the narrator to realize the limitations posed by the past and next to overcome the crisis by pointing out the main motives of action, epiphanies, crises, or breakthrough moments.

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Obraz, opowieść

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Michera W.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2018

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vol. 72

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issue 4(323)

8-16

PL

Obrazy wizualne traktowane bywają tak, jakby były podmiotami obdarzonymi życiem – co podkreśla wielu antropologów obrazu. Jednak W.J.T. Mitchell, wprowadzając w What Do Pictures Want? kategorię „pragnienia”, problematyzuje samo obrazowe „życie”, wskazując m.in. jego „widmowy” charakter. Zdaniem autora artykułu Mitchell w niewystraczający jednak sposób bierze pod uwagę taką oto możliwość, że obrazy, zwracając się niejako do odbiorców, pragną ich oszukiwać. Przywołując poglądy m.in. of J. Hillis Miller, Nicolas Abraham, Jacques Lacan, Paul de Man, Michera pokazuje, że prowokowana przez obrazy interpretacyjna „opowieść” na ich temat ma charakter „apotropaiczny”, tzn. stanowi „bezpieczne” rozwiązanie, ukrywające zarazem to, które naruszałoby podmiotowy status odbiorcy. Drugą część artykułu wypełnia analiza dwóch przykładowych „metapictures”, które można potraktować jako próbę problematyzacji tego zagadnienia: rysunek Albrechta Dürera zatytułowany Msza aniołów oraz Mikrogramy Roberta Walsera.

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Many anthropologists of the image accentuate that visual images are treated as if they were subjects brought to life. By introducing in What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images the category of “wanting” W. J. T. Mitchell turns the “life“ of the image into a problem and indicates its, i.a. “ghostly” character. In the opinion of the author of this article Mitchell paid insufficient attention to the possibility of images wishing to deceive their recipients, towards whom they turn. By referring to the views of, i.a. J. Hillis Miller, Nicolas Abraham, Jacques Lacan, and Paul de Man Michera demonstrated that the interpretational “story” provoked by images is “apotropaic”, i.e. it comprises a “safe” solution, which, at the same time, conceals that, which would breach the subjective status of the recipient. The second part of the article is an analysis of two exemplary “metapictures”, which can be treated as an attempt at problematizing this problem: Albrecht Dürer’s drawing “Angels’ Mass” and Robert Walser’s “Micrograms”.

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Constructing a Narrative in the Standard Unexpected Transfer Test in Adolescence and Adulthood

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Białecka-Pikul M., Rynda M., Syrecka D.

Psychology of Language and Communication

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2010

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vol. 14

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issue 1

29-43

EN

The aim of the presented research was the replication and extension of the research by Nelson, Plesa and Henseler (1998), which was the basis for examining the nature of the theory of mind or mentalizing ability (that is, the ability to attribute mental states to other people in order to explain and predict their behaviors) in adolescents and adults. Specifically, its experience-like versus theory-like character. The test, an unexpected transfer task (the Max story), was completed by 827 people aged 13 to 75 (average 21.9). Half of them were supposed to solve the task with a shorter version of the story (including only the facts), and the other half were given the longer version (including descriptions of emotions, beliefs of the protagonist and explanations of ongoing events). All of the answers were then categorized applying Nelson's classification and two other types of analysis. Gender, age and fields of interest were taken into account during analysis of the participants' answers. The Polish respondents rarely answered in a narrative way (only 13%, in contrast to Nelson's result of 46%). Despite the fact that age was not a factor corresponding to a narrative answer, it was proven that older respondents did indeed assume the first person perspective when justifying Max's behavior. Women, more often than men, appealed to the knowledge and the protagonist's way of thinking. The respondents' fields of interest did not seem to diversify the obtained results, nor did the version of the story. The results do not allow us to draw unambiguous conclusions about the nature of the adult's theory of mind, but they form the basis for analyzing the methodology of research on theory of mind.

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Minsk Narratives. An emerging learning biography in times of protest

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Evans R.

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses

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2022

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vol. 23

25-45

EN

This paper will look at the rich narratives of a young Belarusian professional, Aleksandra, collected in audio and video narratives and interviews since the autumn and winter 2020-2021. By looking in detail at Aleksandra’s experiences of the 2020 movement for democracy in Belarus, the paper will try to illuminate the work done by Aleksandra to give sense to her self-narrative, and to locate the voice she has been looking for and may have found. Connecting the usual micro interactions of conversation-like talk to the complex spaces of political and social relations, biographical narratives constructed in this kind of interview talk become an important lens through which the ongoing construction of individual/social identities and the realignment of individual meaning‑making in times of harsh biographical transition can be heard. Learning biographies, as narrative constructions, in which the layers of experience of a (being) lived life are drawn upon as resources, are situated in, and create, personalised storied spaces. Learning biographies draw upon biographical knowledge, which is the prerequisite for biographical reflexion, i.e. being able to think your own biography through anew and form it anew. In times when demands on people come as sudden and difficult, this type of knowledge serves as crucial biographical competence. The paper will show that such times of conflict entail redefinition of self, the re-drafting of biographies, the urgent need to reinvent the self in relation to others. Discursive processes hearable in such biographic narratives involve the changes imposed by civil conflict on narrators’ own and on others’ words, on their very narrative resources, altering radically the very language hitherto used to describe themselves and the world. They involve, too, the confrontation of past layers of experience with a difficult, yet sometimes exhilarating present. The construction of narratives of hope and solidarity can be observed. Finally, the paper explores the possibility of identifying in the interviews heard here the crucial relationships between everyday lives, the experience found in a widening of everyday sites of biographical experience, learning, and narration.

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Sociálne a vzdelávacie funkcie (literárnych) naratív

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Štubňa P.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2020

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issue 19

363-377

EN

The study deals with social and educational functions of (literary) narratives – both oral and written – in everyday life of a socially grounded individual. Narratives (or stories told or read) play an essential role in building and strengthening social bonds within a community (by spending time together, informing its members of preferred social values and behaviour patterns, etc.) The author sustains that narratives circulating within a particular community (or ethnic group, nation) should be viewed and analyzed from the perspective of cultural anthropology. As an educational tool, stories are utilized not only in families and schools, but also in penitentiary and correctional institutions or in public reading courses. The author also pays attention to particular structural components of “captivating” narratives (such as novelty, surprise, cognitive and/or emotional relevance to the reader, etc.) and so-called narrative universals – themes, types of characters, plots and settings that are common to all cultures worldwide (such as romantic love, human desires and needs, sacrifice, etc.).

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The future of East African Kiswahili orature in the digital age: a case study of WhatsApp narrative

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Mutembei A. K.

Studies in African Languages and Cultures

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2017

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issue 51

33-52

EN

According to Afroline report (see, http://www.afronline.org/?p=16226), the use of mobile phones in Africa is on the rise. By the end of 2011 there were more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa. East Africa is one of the leading regions in Africa, not only in mobile phone usage, but also in the way people are interacting through various social media. Google, for example, is witnessing growth in the use of internet through cell phones social media connection, where it is reported that four out of every ten Google search requests come from a mobile phone. Through digital devices, users create and share narratives, chats, and send stories and various texts including pictographs. Such an increase in the use of digital devices including TV and mobile phones on the one hand, and the intensification of interaction through social media on the other have implications on the meaning and structure of narratives, and on Kiswahili orature in general. Given this trend, we can only predict what the future of Kiswahili oral literature could be. Kiswahili, the language that connects East Africans together, has a long tradition of orature. With the advent of digital devices, and the unprecedented rate of East African users of such devices, what will the future of Kiswahili orature in East Africa be? Using intertextuality theory, the paper addresses these questions by focusing on Kiswahili oral literature as captured through WhatsApp messenger, an instantaneous messaging application for smartphones.

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Identity development through study abroad experiences: Storied accounts

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Kimura H., Hayashi B.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2019

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vol. 9

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issue 3

473-493

EN

This study investigated three Japanese L2 learners who joined a government-funded, short-term study abroad program in the USA during their first year of college. Four years after the program, we interviewed the learners about their overseas experiences. We also asked what they had done during their university years after the program. We then analyzed their accounts to explore participants’ linguistic and personal growth during and after the program. Their stories offered important insights into what short-term study abroad programs should provide: critical experiences that participants embrace through meeting and communicating with new people in L2s for the purpose of mutual understanding. When participants perceived their experiences to be successful and valuable and felt a desire to become a more efficient L2 user, they took actions to improve their L2 skills in relation to other life goals after returning home. Furthermore, their L2 identities are likely interwoven with their current and aspiring personal identities. As such, their stories are self-development trajectories and evidence of L2-learning-mediated personal growth through social interaction. We propose that short-term study programs: (a) avoid an exclusive focus on L2 learning on-site, (b) include ample opportunities of meaningful social interaction, and (c) target first-year students.

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Off the Beaten Path: Ella D'arcy's Yellow Book Stories

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Doroholschi C. I.

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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2012

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vol. 9

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issue 1

210-223

EN

The small body of work produced by Ella D’Arcy in the 1890s is noteworthy for its experimentation with narrative instability, its unsympathetic treatment of character and its oppressive, claustrophobic fictional world. The paper looks at how D’Arcy’s fiction makes use of shifts in focalisation, melodramatic plot twists and closure to build up a sense of irresoluteness and moral de-centering.

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Göran Bolin & Per Ståhlberg (2023): Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution. The MIT Press, 166 pp., ISBN: 9780262374576, DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14147.001.0001

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Valchanov I.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2023

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vol. 16

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issue 2(34)

292-295

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Praca w placówce pediatrycznego leczenia paliatywnego w narracjach personelu medycznego

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Gruza M., Instytut Psychologii U. W.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Psychologica

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2012

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vol. 16

EN

Nowadays the good thing is being healthy, young and beautiful. Suffering, disease, old age and death are pushed to the margins of social life, hidden behind the closed doors of hospitals and nursing homes. A man wants do anything to get away from the situation of confrontation with the fragility of human life. However, there are still people who want to support others with professional activity. The purpose of this article is to present reports on the narrative research about working on the pediatric palliative ward and to show what medical staff is thinking about life, death and themselves.

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Code switching and the so-called “assimilation narrative”

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Vraukó T.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2018

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vol. 4

173-181

EN

In literary theory, the works of (ethnic) minority authors–and similarly, the works of authors dealing with minorities–are often referred to as “assimilation narrative.” This term tends to suggest that minority authors, who write in the language of their country, seek a place in society through assimilation. Assimilation, however, means melting up in the majority nation by adopting all the values, customs and way of life characteristic of the majority, and abandoning, leaving behind, giving up the original traditional values, ethics, lifestyle, religion etc. of the minority. Assimilation means disappearing without a trace, continuing life as a new person, with new values, language, a whole set of new cultural assets. In this paper an effort is made to show that this is in fact not what many of the ethnic minority writers look for, so the term assimilation narrative is in many, although certainly not all, the cases, erroneuosly applied. It is justified to make a distinction between assimilation and integration narratives, as the two are not the same. In the paper examples are provided from Hispanic-American literature (Mexican-American, Puerto Rican and Dominican), across a range of genres from prose through drama to poetry, and also, examples are discussed when the author does in fact seek assimilation, as well as stories in which neither assimilation, nor integration is successful.

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Artefacts on Display: Museum Narrative for the Bulgarian National Revival Period

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Velikov I.

Zbiór Wiadomości do Antropologii Muzealnej

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2020

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issue 7

EN

Bulgarian museums, which present the National Revival period, form a whole category of exhibitions, the specifics of which are recognizable to a wide range of audiences. Themessages in these museums are not entirely unknown; on the contrary - there are certain preliminary expectations for them, the answer to which leads to satisfaction from the visit. In the minds of many Bulgarians, visiting these exhibitions, as well as the satisfaction of this act, are "mandatory". The artefacts construct an idea of the dynamics of social development, in which the virtues of the "old" society are complemented by modern European ideas of the era, and innovations in the life of Bulgarians happen only for the better. The presence of the exhibits in the museums of the Bulgarian National Revival is completely subordinated to the general presentation idea. Their main function is to illustrate the specific topic - the photograph visualizes a figure or location, the document testifies to them truth, and the personal belonging evokes adoration. From this point of view, artefacts play a supporting rather than a catalytic role - instead of "items with history", museums show "history complemented by items".

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Narrative Thickness

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McGregor R.

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

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2015

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vol. 52

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issue 1

3-23

EN

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the experience of a literary narrative qua literary narrative is an experience of narrative thickness, that is, an experience in which narrative form and narrative content are inseparable. I explain my thesis of poetic thickness in § 1, showing why it does not admit of extension from poetry to literary narratives. §§ 2–3 synthesize the work of Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque, advancing narrative thickness as a necessary condition of literary narratives. I propose a work of didactic literature – J. M. Coetzee’s ‘The Lives of Animals’ – as a paradigmatic counterexample to narrative thickness in § 4. I show, in § 5, that narrative thickness holds for this work in particular and didactic works which are literary in general, concluding that narrative thickness is indeed a necessary condition of literary narratives.

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The Spoiled Drama of Emancipation: Conflicting Narratives

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Kurczewski J.

Polish Sociological Review

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2010

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vol. 168

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issue 4

539-554

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This paper focuses on the negative narratives of the transformation in Poland, which describe the Round Table talks in 1989 as having been an act, showing at least the domination of the communist leaders, if not the betrayal by the opposition leaders. This is continued in the institutionalized procedures of lustration, in searching for secret police agents amongst others. The persistence of the topic as the foremost in the post-1989 political life of democratic Poland is explained by reference to the dramaturgical structure of the transformation as an emancipation that should have led to a cathartic culmination. In fact, in Poland the social drama (Turner 1974 ) had started much earlier, witnessed by the summer strikes of 1980 and the establishment of Solidarność but was spoiled by martial law which was introduced by the communists on January 13th, 1981. Thus the freezing stage followed instead, while the emancipation was effected ten years later from above as a result of negotiated compromise. Apart from that emancipation, this meant the introduction of a capitalist economy while political freedom and democracy were the only elements kept on the publicly agreed upon agenda of the anti-communist movement. The negative narratives result from frustration, which in turn leads to symbolic lustration attempts at scapegoating the opposition leader(s).

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Momenty (nie)ciągłości psychologii narracyjnej

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Obrębska M., Soroko E.

Człowiek i Społeczeństwo

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2023

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vol. 56

7-19

EN

The thematic diversity and the way narrative is understood demonstrate the vitality of the concept and the phenomenon of narrative in psychology. This article presents some questions and dilemmas that narrative psychology, which is still a young discipline in search of its scientific identity, pose to researchers. It is not our ambition to resolve these questions; instead, we perceive them as moments of (dis)continuity in the ongoing narrative story and as markers of the directions of research and theoretical considerations. We identify such themes as the distinction between utterance and narrative, the space between author and listener, the directions in which the notion of narrative identity is expanding, and the link between narrative structure and narrative process. The methodological diversity the narrative perspective introduces allows us to pose research questions in a qualitative and quantitative approach.

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Narracja autobiograficzna w biegu życia

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Dryll E., Cierpka A.

Człowiek i Społeczeństwo

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2023

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vol. 56

23-43

EN

The aim of the article is to present the concept and research on the development of autobiographical narrative in the course of a person’s life. Reference was made to basic concepts important for the analysis of the topic: the definition of narrative, constructionist assumptions, understanding the process of creating self-narrative and the definition of autobiographical narrative. The considerations also include the issue of autobiographical memory and the discussion on understanding autobiographical narrative as monolithic vs. polyphonic. The following subchapters discuss the predispositions and development of early narrative competences, the beginnings of constructing an autobiographical narrative, the mechanisms of shaping and changing the autobiographical narrative in adulthood, including the characteristic features of self-narratives in late adulthood. The review of research presented in the article documents the mechanisms of shaping the autobiographical narrative, the directions of its changes in the life course and selected relationships important for understanding the process of these changes (e.g. the issue of increasing the ability to reflect biographically with age, fulfilling the need for generativity, the effect of intentionally minimizing unpleasant feelings in senior age, the concept of gerotranscendence, etc.). The article ends with reflections on the importance of constructing an autobiographical narrative in the modern world, the availability of autobiographical reflection and its meaning-creating value.

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Compiti narrativi di apprendenti polacchi di italiano L2

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Mosca M.

Italica Wratislaviensia

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2013

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issue 4

59-84

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This preliminary study investigates the emergence of constructions of motion in Polish learners of Italian L2, based on a narrative task. The semantic-typological tendencies relative to expressions of motion are discussed, as well as implications for L2 acquisition. It appears that learners with different levels of competence tend to conform to the target language.

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Lo smarrimento come inizio in alcuni testi di Giuseppe Culicchia

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Puto M.

Romanica Silesiana

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2020

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vol. 17

81-93

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The aim of the present article is to analyze the relationship between the city and the protagonists of Giuseppe Culicchia’s texts. The methodological perspective is that of cultural anthropology, in particular the concept of mente locale, discussed by Franco La Cecla. Mente locale, as a relationship between space and human mind, is vital in the act of getting lost in space (perdersi), which leads to getting to know it (orientarsi) and finally initiating the profound relationship based on emotivity. Culicchia’s texts are set in Turin, and the study points out the different ways of perception of the city. The analyzed texts represents the gradual acquisition of knowledge about the city that corresponds to the theoretical thesis that is how the anthropology of space and place illustrates the conceptual and material dimensions of space which is central to the production of social life, bringing classics of cultural anthropology together with new theoretical approaches.

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Wkurwy, złostki i pomiędzy. O wierszach Kamili Janiak

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Kaczmarski P.

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne

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2019

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vol. 14

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issue 2

173-186

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The article is focused on the theme of anger in Kamila Janiak’s poetry – its forms, types, and understanding that transpire as she develops her poetry. A paradigm of reception assumed herein as a departure point is the category of a “piss-off” (Polish vulgar noun wkurw, a strong sensation of anger), which is synonymous with intense and politically motivated indignation. The author of the article, however, attempts to show that Janiak’s poetry has been for a long time defined by other affective registers; emotions and moods in a way supressed – restricted, unfulfilled, most of all: incapable of climaxing and of “exploding.” The said state of affairs should be connected with the structure of individual and collective subjectivity appearing in Janiak’s poetry, namely, a subject that is shattered and (also politically) dispersed, lacking any devices to develop a coherent narrative, with hardly any access to political forms of anger which frequently cannot exist without consistent narrative. Instead of being expressed by one’s indignation, the said subject resorts to “little fits of pique” (a diminutive złostki is used here by Janiak), a series of minor, yet rapidly accumulating irritations, which do not find their outlet. This state of being affectively shattered may be seen in existential categories, but also political and generational ones.

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