Narrative Perspective Research Articles

中国社交媒体环境下“宝妈创业者”的职业叙述：自我、孩子与生意

In the past decades, women-owned businesses have increased significantly. A large portion of these entrepreneurs are mothers who combine entrepreneurship with raising their children and are also known as ‘mompreneurs’. Researchers have highlighted the impact of changes at critical life stages on mothers’ career decisions, and noted that the unique way that entrepreneurial mothers coordinate roles, relationships, and domain involvement has an important influence on their career patterns. Despite a growing interest in women’s career-life development and entrepreneurship, relatively few researches have been conducted on the entrepreneurial career of self-employed mothers with dependent children. This research seeks to understand how mompreneurs perceive the relationship between self, business, and children. Adopting a career narrative perspective, this study applies a qualitative interview research design, the data were collected through open-ended, semi-structured interviews by face to face or Skype, supplemented by questionnaire. The twelve mothers’ interviews were a small sample of the most ordinary mompreneurs in China, they were recruited by purposive sampling and snowball sampling method. The study proposes ‘six entrepreneurial career types’ to explain why mother mothers’ transit into entrepreneurship, and is dedicated to providing theoretical and practical references for researchers and practitioners engaged in female entrepreneurship and career counseling.

Pachakuti, an Indigenous Perspective on Collapse and Extinction

This work aims to examine pachakuti as the patent mytheme found in three poems written by different indigenous poets: “Todo está dicho” (“Everything has been said”) by Fredy Chakangana, “La Tórtola, pájaro melancólico” (“The turtledove, melancholic bird”) by Lorenzo Ayllapán, and “Vivir-Morir” (“To live-to die”) by Vito Apüshana. Pachakuti is a key concept in Andean literature, both in mythological and cosmological tales, and in contemporary indigenous narrative. Pachakuti is interpreted to symbolize a re-balancing of the world through a chaotic chain of events that manifests itself as a catastrophe or an upheaval of the order of things. As pachakuti becomes a recurrent motif (patent mytheme) in the chosen poems, it is explored to show a different narrative perspective of collapse and extinction, as well as to expose how earth-beings (latent mytheme) acquire their own agency in the poems and denounce modern forms of extractivism (such as deforestation and water contamination). Through the earth-beings’ voices the poems contribute to reveal new perspectives about collapse and extinction anchored in indigenous narratives from the Global South.

Filmowość Marii Antoniego Malczewskiego


 
 
 The aim of this article is to analyse the poetics of Antoni Malczewski’s Maria in terms of its cinematic qualities. The author uses various film theories, including those formulated by Siegfried Kracauer, Béla Balázs and Jean Mitry, in order to approximate the meaning of a text being cinematic and to find tools for the analysis of a literary text through this lens. Six features are distinguished: (1) fragmentariness of the plot structure, (2) editing within scenes, (3) a focus on movement, (4) transcending the limitations of human perception, (5) quasi-reproduction of reality and (6) giving images meaning as parts of a larger composition. These can be found in different passages from Maria, the analysis of which leads the author to conclude that the key to the cinematic qualities in Malczewski’s novel is the quasi-impersonal reproduction of reality achieved thanks to the withdrawn narrative perspective, the descriptions of empirical reality and the behavioural characteristics of the characters. In the summary, the cinematic qualities of Maria are put within a context of the history of literature and linked to the break with classicistic poetics and the move towards Romanticism.
 
 

The image artistry of VR film “Killing a Superstar”

<p>The purpose of this article is to take “Killing a Superstar” as a typical example, to denmonstrate how VR technology generates VR film via virtualizing 3D world from aesthetic perspective, and to give a critical reflection of VR film. The article includes three parts. The first part is about how the film utilizes VR as a technical premise for the implement of interactive narrative, constructing the audio-visual space with panoramic photography, and generating the virtual world with digital programs. Its interactive mode renders human-computer dialogue feasible, and realizes the connection between human and virtual reality with VR playback equipment. The second part is carried out under a further analysis of the artistic dimension of the film. In this section, it’s pointed out that the active narrative perspective of the audience, the multilinear narrative structure of time and space, the embodied and remote experience of perception, and the prominent guiding narrative processing, are all combined together for the sake to present interactive narrative art expression of virtual world. And the final part tries to reflect and evaluate on VR film in a broader vision. From both technical and artistic viewpoints, VR film is a breakthrough and innovation compared to traditional film model, although it surely has some drawbacks and limitations. If it can be considered more in a sense of establishing interactable virtual world then stroytelling, it is likely to develop into a more significant VR image art in the future.</p>

Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity

AbstractChildren adopted from care become part of a hidden, but no less vulnerable, group in the education system and may be overlooked for allocation of additional support and guidance. Adoption is a relatively unique experience and adds layers of complexity, difference and vulnerability to young people's lives that are poorly understood and under‐researched. Adopted adolescents face significant challenges in social, emotional and behavioural aspects of school life. An attainment gap persists throughout their educational career. Adoptees are strikingly absent from many conversations regarding care‐experienced young people yet their needs and challenges are comparable with those of their peers remaining in the care system. Assumptions are made about adoptees’ opportunity and capacity to recover, concealing challenges faced in adjusting to adoptive life, including education. The impact of adoptees’ early experiences could lead to complex identity formation processes during adolescence, with potential implications for education experience and performance. This paper explores the potential of applying a narrative adoptive identity perspective to answer questions about how adopted children and young people experience school as an adopted person, i.e. how does their lived experience as an adopted member of a school community impact on their engagement with school, schoolwork and peer networks? The concept of ‘communicative openness’ is used to illustrate the vital role the school community plays in enabling adopted children to transition into and thrive in school. Taking a narrative adoptive identity approach may enable teachers to better meet adoptees’ specific learning and teaching needs as dictated by their unique experiences and enhance opportunities for better educational progress.

The introduction from a narrative perspective in the 'Smart book'

There is no doubt that the news is one of the closest narratives to the story, and people have transmitted the news in their first era until it became their companion and the fruit of their conversations, where the Arabs were passionate about narrating and documenting the news until many of those news documents reached us, many of which have not been studied yet, and Arab researchers in the modern era have paid attention to this huge narrative heritage that our ancestors left written in the folds of huge volumes, although most of it was lost and lost, and perhaps the development that has reached the methods of studying and criticizing narrative genres, which resulted in a science in itself, is “narrative science” One of the reasons for this attention. The narrative structure of the news consists of several elements, one of which complements the other in its introduction, which is the introduction that the research seeks to study in one of the Arabic news documents attributed to Ibn al-Jawzi and titled (The Smart), due to the importance that this narrative element is distinguished by being an effective element in The structure of the news is what begins with the narration and what first strikes the ears. The structure of the research was based on three demands. The first one stopped at the concept of both news and introduction, as the research is based on showing (the introduction) from a narrative perspective in a book (news), while the second demand defined the general structure of the book under study and showing the most prominent narrative characteristics in it. To end up with us at The third requirement, which was concerned with studying the introduction in this book, is a study that is consistent with modern narrative discourse.

Verbalizing animal inner speech

This paper investigates narrative sequences where human speakers verbalize non-human animals’ imagined thoughts in Finnish. The data contain interviews reporting interspecies encounters in the early 20th-century peasant communities, and conversations from a call-in radio program broadcasted in 2012 where participants describe and explain animal behavior. The study focusses on the grammatical and narrative properties of animal inner speech (AIS). These are analyzed in a cognitive-pragmatic framework concerning reported thoughts, deixis, and intersubjective meaning construal. The results are compared to what we know of language use in Human–Animal interaction. To gain further insight into the role of human language in describing interspecies encounters, the outcome of the analysis is discussed with respect to the biosemiotic notion of perceptual worlds.Reported AIS was found to co-occur with expressions of animal sensory perception, describing the ways in which animals treat and assess sensory input. In doing so, reported AIS differs from what previous literature has observed concerning reported human thoughts. From a narrative perspective, reported AIS reiterated already provided information and did not contribute to the unfolding of events. AIS was used to share awareness of human experience concerning the plurality of perceptual and semiotic centers in the situation described. As such, it displays certain similarities with language use in situations with co-present animals. The paper sheds light on the linguistic coding of interspecies sharedness in perception and spatial coordination.

The Tender Narrator In Guzel Yakhina’s Zuleikha

The main assertion in this paper is that the tender narrator, whom the Polish writer, Olga Tokarczuk, made the subject of her Nobel Lecture, can convey the author’s perspective in such a way that all readers can find themselves in it. Using the example of Guzel Yakhina’s Zuleikha, the author of this paper demonstrates how tender narration brings out the titular character’s defenselessness as a quality of the human condition. The author ponders what distinguishes Yakhina’s novel among other examples of camp or historical literature and also addresses Hélène Cixous’s concept of l’écriture feminine, concluding that the perspective of tender narration is coextensive with the feminine narration that is open to voices arriving from a multitude of perspectives. The author also demonstrates that Yakhina’s Zuleikha is an example of literature that highlights and explores the experience of a human being’s internal freedom, which is inalienable, even though its external freedom may be endangered by fate, the laws of history or political machinations.

Narrative Analysis of Film Adaptation of Literary Works Take the Joy Luck Club as an Example

From a narrative perspective, the novel and the film The Joy Luck Club tell the same story, but they use different narrative strategies. There is still a gap in research comparing the novel and film texts of The Joy Luck Club from a narrative perspective. This paper compares the narrative texts of the novel and the film version of The Joy Luck Club, analyzing the similarities and differences between the narrative of the literary work and its film adaptation and their effects through five aspects: narrative structure and narrative perspective, artistic expression, plot, imagery transformation, and narrative frequency. Ultimately, it is found that although the film version of The Joy Luck Club has altered the original novel in terms of plot, it still respects the core ideas that the author wanted to express. Furthermore, due to its unique presentation method, it also achieves sound artistic effects.

The Construction of the Female Image and Social-Cultural Metaphor in Tuya's Marriage from the Perspective of Space Narration

The rural film Tuya's Marriage, directed by Wang Quan'an, constructs profound and rich spatial metaphors, promotes the development of film narrative, shapes the character characteristics of female characters and completes the unique expression of the female experience. Based on the theory of space narration, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of three narrative Spaces, which are enclosed space, social space and imagination space. It reveals the internal relationship between spatial metaphor and the image-building of female characters in movies as well as the profound cultural connotation. The film focuses on the living conditions, the expression of true emotions and the construction of female individual subjectivity of women in marginal areas, which further promotes the writing of female images in films.

Aftersun - An Author's Voice on Screen

Aftersun is self-described by director Charlotte Wells as an "emotional autobiography" because it contains her personal traumatic experiences. The film focuses on 31-year-old Sophie, who looks back at home videos, watching and recalling a holiday to Turkey with her father when she was 11 years old. The events of that trip are uneventful, but the grief hidden by her father and the young Sophie's lack of understanding of him, add a subtle but strong emotional dimension to the film. Through personal artistry, the director allows Aftersun to reveal her personal emotional leanings to the audience, and the purpose of this paper is to explore how she gives voice to herself in the film. This paper will focus on how the director constructs a unique narrative perspective through the medium of home video, how the emotions and relationships of the characters are enhanced or implied through the frame of the camera, and how these designs contribute to the emotional presentation of the film. On this basis, this paper will explore what personal emotions she buried in Aftersun in the context of one of the director's short works.

Using Translanguaging to Decolonize English Language Teaching in Colombia: A Narrative Inquiry

Today’s classrooms are linguistically diverse. Nonetheless, English language teaching still uses a separatist model in which other languages and identities are reduced and subalternized. This evident separation of languages has forced many English speakers to identify with the non-native label, prevented them from using the linguistic resources they have previously acquired from other languages to communicate and learn in given settings, and made the different ways they exist invisible. From a narrative perspective, this article documents how two English teacher educators do not conform to this native ideology by resorting to a translanguaging pedagogy. It narrates their pedagogical experiences and insights preparing English teachers in Colombia and explores how they use their linguistic repertoire as a mechanism to teach. Their narratives reveal that translanguaging is a pedagogy that allows English teachers to challenge discourses framed in monolingual perspectives. They also indicate that by implementing a translanguaging pedagogy, English teachers can foster and enact a counter-nonnative ideology that enables them to reclaim their identities. All in all, the results of this inquiry suggest that it is worth pursuing translanguaging as a language pedagogy that disrupts colonial language practices and identity discourses.

Leading digital transformation: A narrative perspective

AbstractChange communication is a critical dimension for leading digital transformation. Existing literature predominantly theorizes change communication as part of the earliest stages of the transformation, but how it evolves over time to remain relevant in this context is understudied. We address this shortcoming through a four‐year study of a digital transformation initiative in a local government's health care department. Drawing on a narrative perspective, we offer a processual account and describe the ongoing communicative work of public managers as they attempt to shape frontline workers' expectations of digital transformation. We theorize three narrative types—aspirational, setback, and persistence—that work as communicative resources in dealing with hopes, delays, and emerging concerns. Our article contributes to the literature on leading digital transformation in the public sector by providing a narrative perspective that details how managers produce narratives, navigate existing ones, and tailor them to emerging concerns.

Homoerotic and Homosexual Perspectives in Medieval Poetry and Verse Narratives: Indirect Evidence of a Hidden Discourse

Abstract Although it proves to be a difficult task, we still can identify more literary texts from the Middle Ages addressing homoerotic love than we might have expected. Even when poets voiced severe criticism and radically condemned homosexuality, their comments serve us well to identify more specifically the actual discourse behind the official scene. Although legal and Church authorities consistently characterized ‘sodomy’ as one of the worst sins a Christian could commit, since late antiquity, and certainly throughout the Middle Ages, the phenomenon, a biological fact, existed, of course, and was also addressed in veiled or open language. This article examines a selection of relevant literary and didactic works that shed more light on this issue.

“That hive of subtlety”: Retranslation as Criticism, or a New Polish Benito Cereno

The article focuses on my translation of Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno, published recently in a volume entitled Nowele i opowiadania (PIW, 2020), the work of eight translators into Polish. The volume contains new attempts at texts translated forty years earlier by Krystyna Korwin-Mikke; also featured is her own, newly revised translation of Melville’s classic – Bartleby, the Scrivener. Finding myself authoring a retranslation for the first time, I became intrigued by the affect accompanying such a ‘belated’ arrival at the text – not within a long, eminent ‘series’ (in Edward Balcerzan’s understanding of the term), but where only one previous, more or less canonical translation exists. Taking as my starting point Balcerzan’s terminology as well as Anna Legeżyńska’s notion of the ‘shared word’, I employ the concept of the translators’ agon, developed from Harold Bloom’s ideas by Kaisa Koskinen and Outi Paloposki (2015). On the basis of several examples from the field of Polish translations, and concentrating on the rhetorics of paratextual material, I briefly examine the positions that a second translator – fated to participate in an agonistic relation – may take with regard to his precursor; my examples here are three renowned practitioners: Michał Kłobukowski, Krystyna Rodowska and Maciej Świerkocki. Because my own experience is bound up with translation practice to a considerably larger degree than with its theoretical aspects, the heart of the article is an analysis of particular strategies in both of the Polish translations of Benito Cereno. I focus on issues such as nomenclature, narrative perspective, grammatical gender, as well as conventional and idiosyncratic metaphors. Exploring my own agonistic relations with Krystyna Korwin-Mikke, I attempt to determine the extent to which I have managed to avoid getting caught up in the affect produced by the uncomfortable yet inspiring consciousness of the first translator’s voice. The article is an extension of the critical gesture which I consider my retranslation, in itself, to be. Emphasizing the differences in our approach, I a so try to embrace what is shared, and to acknowledge my indebtedness to the precursor.

Text Study of Reader Magazine in the Context of Big Data

Abstract Exploring the textual emotional value of the Reader is to help readers understand the Reader’s embedded emotions in an all-around way. In this paper, two text analysis methods, latent semantic analysis and probabilistic latent semantic analysis are described, starting from the analysis model of text research, and the automatic text classification technique is illustrated. The principles of support vector machines are explained, the optimal decision function selection solution is performed using kernel functions, and a PLSA-SVM text analysis model is also constructed using the PLSA method jointly with SVM. The structural features of Reader magazine were analyzed and explained, and the PLSA-SVM text analysis model was used to analyze the data on the narrative features of Reader magazine. In terms of narrative themes, the main narrative themes of Reader magazine were distributed as affection and love, which increased by 16.84% and 17.42% from 2012 to 2021, respectively. In terms of narrative perspectives, the proportion of first-person and third-person narrative perspectives is comparable, increasing by 9.03% and 12.3% from 2012 to 2021, respectively. Thus, in the context of big data, the PLSA-SVM text analysis model can be used to analyze the text narrative features of Reader magazine effectively, and Reader magazine can use the analysis to optimize further the text content and issue texts that are attuned to readers’ emotions.

Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Endoscopy Practitioner Risk Factors, Ergonomic Challenges and Prevention—Narrative Review and Perspectives

GI endoscopy forms an important part in the daily practice of a gastroenterologist. Musculoskeletal injuries related to GI endoscopy are on the rise. Observational studies and surveys depict the importance of a proper ergonomic environment when performing GI endoscopy. Our aim is to describe the pathophysiology, risk factors and possible preventive measures to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries during gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. We review the most relevant studies that outline the gravity of the problem. A detailed analysis of proposed ergonomic recommendations is performed, outlining crucial steps in injury prevention. Proper ergonomic education is a key step in preventing occupational injury. Robotics and other mechanical solutions offer a variety of approaches to tackling the ergonomic challenge. Implementing proper ergonomic education and mechanical solutions lowers the possibility of occupational injury. The strategies and appliances presented are beneficial to all GI endoscopy practitioners.

Hip Hop Pantsula making Setswana fashionable: impact on Setswana orthography

The aim of this article is to investigate how South African hip-hop lyrics break language rules and promote South African indigenous languages. The article focuses on youth participation in linguistic change in South Africa and illustrates how youth linguistic cultures are practised in everyday interactions. In South Africa, most rap musicians consider hip-hop to be the voice of youth culture. The challenge is that hip-hop has a bad reputation, mostly because hip-hop rappers were associated with bad language and violence. However, motswako (a South African genre of hip-hop) lyricists want to be associated with creativity and freestyling that make sense to the youth in a contemporary era. The study of hip-hop and identity from a factual narrative perspective is not well represented. In this article, discourse analysis is used to examine how the linguistics and identities are presented by motswako lyricists to associate creativity with freestyling from an African perspective. A few examples of motswako lyrics were selected to analyse the creativity of the lyricists and their contributions to linguistic and cultural change. The results show that youth in these spaces are active creators and contributors to linguistic and cultural change, which has led to the popularity of this genre.

MOBY-DICK, MODERNISM AND THE “POST-DEATH” NARRATION

There is a peculiar tendency among many first-person Modernist narrators to simulate the narrative perspective of “posthumousness” (as if these accounts were somehow narrated by the dead). The procedure (that could be termed the “post-death narration”) seems to be present in various proto-modernist and Modernist works such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, etc. This narrative perspective is entwined with the trauma discourse, and the article argues that some of the best-known Modernist techniques (like the stream of consciousness) are based on the Gothic model of spectral narration. In the works of the genre, ghosts are often portrayed as traumatized, incommunicative, and disoriented “shattered selves” eternally entrapped in the closed space of a single, repetitive traumatic memory. This also seems to be the case with many Modernist narrators. The article shows various ways this genre convention of the Gothic has been (re)used in Modernist storytelling. Furthermore, the “post-death narration” could also be interpreted as a “symptom” of extreme subjectivity and epistemic frustration (which are typical features of Modernist narration in general). It is also claimed that the narrative perspective of “posthumousness” was first employed in Melville's Moby-Dick and that Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, could be seen as the “prototype” of this kind of Modernist “post-death” narration.

Leveraging horizon height in a panoramic advertisement to promote tourism advertising effectiveness: a construal fit perspective

ABSTRACT A variety of visual information has received attention in the field of destination sensory marketing. However, the horizon height in a panoramic advertising image – one visual message often used in advertising – has yet to be researched. This research causes several noteworthy findings through three scenario-based experiments. Results reveal that the horizon height in a tourism panoramic advertisement should be tailored to the tourism activity type to enhance advertising effectiveness (i.e. increased travel intention): for a relaxing activity, customers should be exposed to a panoramic advertisement featuring a high horizon; for a challenging activity, a panorama with a low horizon is more persuasive. Findings also unearth the mediating (i.e. engagement) and moderating (i.e. narrative perspective) effects behind the interaction between the horizon height in a panoramic advertising view and tourism activity type on travel intention. These discoveries enrich the literature on tourism destination sensory marketing and provide destination marketers with a novel means of attracting visitors.