Search for dissertations about: "narrative"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 636 swedish dissertations containing the word narrative.

  2. 6. The Making of Resistance : Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment

    Author : Markus Lundström; Paulina de los Reyes; Fredrik Uggla; Stellan Vinthagen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MST; Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra; peasant; Brazil; social movement; autonomy; constructive resistance; historiography; narrative; collective memory; identity; subject formation; focus group interview; corpus analysis; meta-analysis; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the story of Brazil’s Landless Movement: its historiographical prequel, its narrative components, its modifications, its enactment. The study derives from a non-essentialist understanding of the resistance agent, here construed as political subject – a collective of individuals, contingently unified in a specific political struggle, not necessarily representing a mutual material need, nor a common identity. READ MORE

  4. 7. Developing narrative competence : Swedish, Swedish-German and Swedish-Turkish children aged 4–6

    Author : Josefin Lindgren; Ute Bohnacker; Sharon Unsworth; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; narratives; macrostructure; referent introduction; vocabulary; preschool children; bilingualism; Swedish; German; Turkish; MAIN; ENNI; CLT; berättande; makrostruktur; referentintroduktion; ordförråd; förskolebarn; flerspråkighet; svenska; tyska; turkiska; MAIN; ENNI; CLT; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of oral narrative competence from age 4 to 6 in Swedish monolinguals (N=72) and in both languages of Swedish-German (N=46) and Swedish-Turkish (N=48) bilinguals growing up in Sweden. Picture-based fictional narratives were elicited with Cat/Dog and Baby Birds/Baby Goats from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN, Gagarina et al. READ MORE

  5. 8. Mental Imagery in the Experience of Literary Narrative : Views from Embodied Cognition

    Author : Anezka Kuzmicova; Göran Rossholm; Marie-Laure Ryan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary narrative; mental imagery; embodiment; embodied cognition; imagination; reading; reader response; sensorimotor simulation; interpretation; aesthetics; narrative theory; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : Defined as vicarious sensorimotor experiencing, mental imagery is a powerful source of aesthetic enjoyment in everyday life and, reportedly, one of the commonest things readers remember about literary narratives in the long term. Furthermore, it is positively correlated with other dimensions of reader response, most notably with emotion. READ MORE

  6. 9. Stories of Achievements - Narrative Features of Organizational Performance

    Author : Hervé Corvellec; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Narrative; Organizational performance; Management of enterprises; Annual reports.; Public Libraries; Sport; Management literature; Management terminology; Företagsledning; management;

    Abstract : Stories of achievements is a study concerning uses of the notion of organizational performance. It shows the variety of meanings given the notion in dictionaries, management literature, sports, and performance indicators; it also explores how such meanings are constructed and how they are attached to this notion in new contexts, such as in the activity reports of public libraries. READ MORE

  7. 10. The Rough Ground : Narrative explorations of vocational Bildung and wisdom in practice

    Author : Ruhi Tyson; Lazaro Moreno Herrera; Maud Baumgarten; Philipp Gonon; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Vocational education; Bildung; Practical wisdom; Narrative; Practice; Didactics; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis, consisting of five articles, focuses on narrative explorations of vocational Bildung and wisdom in practice. It is an explicitly practical and empirical approach to what, for the most part, tends to be limited to philosophical discussions. READ MORE