Search results for "narrative"

The experience of ageing and advanced old age: a ten-year follow-up

2004

This paper presents, analyses and interprets expressions of the experience of advanced old age based upon the concepts of the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the German philosopher, Martin Heidegger. During 1990, 262 older residents of the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland were interviewed. They were born in 1910 and aged 80 years at the time. In addition to collecting epidemiological data, the narrative stories on the ageing experience of a sub-sample of 20 respondents (10 men and 10 women) were tape-recorded. A five-year follow-up was carried out with the same cohort in 1995, when 17 of the original sub-sample of 20 were still alive. Unlike five years previously, mos…

2018

ABSTRACTThis study takes a narrative perspective to examine teachers as writers and autobiographical creative writing as a way for promoting teachers’ professional development. In a creative writin...

The Role of the Prefect in the Italian Legal System

2014

Any approach to the prefectoral institute, as it appears today as result of the recent changes introduced in the Italian legal system over the last years, cannot be reconstructed by starting from government representation, and consequently, from the fundamental character of several competences of the Prefect in Italy in the light of the deep reforms of the Italian public administration in the perspective of the “multi-level constitutionalism” the progressive emergence and developments of organs, structure and procedures that create legal norms and impose such norms on citizens of different national states3.

Māwardī and Machiavelli : Reflections on Power in their Mirrors for Princes

2018

Abstract Despite their apparently contradictory views on religion’s role in statecraft, and despite being separated by both history and geography, Al-Mawardi and Machiavelli approach the question of political power in an unapologetically direct fashion. This paper interrogates their philosophies and the way in which their highly unstable social settings and their rather more stable religious traditions intersect in two of their key texts, The Ordinances of Government and The Prince, respectively. These texts demonstrate that even early Muslim tradition had a theory of impersonal governance, whereas 500 years later Europeans had by no means given up on narratives of personified power.

Themes of Research on eGovernment in Developing Countries: Current Map and Future Roadmap

2013

This paper reports a literature review of eGovernment research in developing countries published between 2005 and 2010. From a review of 108 papers, the present study found that the papers could be mapped into five main research themes: design/implementation, adoption, impact, evaluation, and context. For each main theme, several sub-themes were identified. The research approaches used to investigate each theme were described. In addition to presenting the current landscape of eGovernment research, this paper also provides future research directions related to the empirical, theoretical, and methodological domains.

Don't Tell Us: The Demand for Secretive Behaviour

2009

The matter studied here is how, and with what implications, people may decide that they do not want to be let into secrets that concern them. They could get the information at no cost but they refuse to know. The reasoning is framed in terms of principals and agents, with the principals assumed not to want to know the agents' secrets. For convenience, the context chosen for the exposition is mainly that of voters as principals and the government or the office-holders as agents. After some exploration of the motivations underlying the attitude of the principals, the paper focuses on the case when neither total secrecy nor total disclosure prevails. The demand for partial secrecy is analysed …

Cultural References and Linguistic Exponents of Gender in the Norwegian Translation of Michał Witkowski’s Lubiewo

2019

The novel Lubiewo by the Polish writer Michal Witkowski has been called by its reviewers “a homosexual Decamerone.” The atmosphere of the book ranges from bright situational comic through bizarre tragicomic to serious reflection, and the narration structure resembles Boccaccio’s. The heroes (or heroines) of the novel belong to a complicated and internally split world of Polish homosexuals. Their sociolects and registers are, at first glance, barely translatable into Germanic languages: partly because of the Polish grammatical gender system, partly because of their extremely deep anchoring in the Polish culture. In this chapter, the Norwegian translation of Lubiewo is compared to the novel’s…

Entwicklung einer psychosozialen Online-Selbsthilfe für Krebspatienten: ein patientenorientierter Ansatz

2021

Zusammenfassung Ziel der Studie Der Einbezug potenzieller Endnutzerinnen und -nutzer in den Entwicklungsprozess digitaler Interventionen ermöglicht, dass entwickelte Programme den Bedürfnissen, Anforderungen und Erwartungen der zukünftigen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer entsprechen, was sich wiederum positiv auf die Akzeptanz und Adhärenz auswirkt. In diesem Beitrag wird ein partizipativer Entwicklungsansatz für die patientennahe Gestaltung der psychoonkologischen Online-Selbsthilfe epos vorgestellt, welche Unterstützung im Umgang mit seelischen und körperlichen Beschwerden bieten soll. Methodik Patientinnen und Patienten wurden an 2 Stellen in den Entwicklungsprozess einbezogen. Zu einem frühen Ze…

On the relation between present and future tense in Lithuanian: Preliminary considerations in the domain of non-deictic tense use

2021

The article examines non-deictic uses of present and future tense in Lithuanian. Narrative use, in which reference intervals match with singular events, is distinguished from suspended propositions characterized by lack of such reference intervals (habitual, dispositional and circumstantial modal, and conditional meanings). Present tense is frequently involved in both usage domains, while the future is rare in narrative use, but overlaps with present tense in certain types of suspended propositions. Moreover, its temporal-deictic use is inherently associated with suspended propositions and “linked” to them via epistemic implicatures. This, in contrast to the present, makes the future more l…

Narrative Transformations and Externalizing Talk in a Reflecting Team Consultation

2006

This article reports on a therapeutic consultation session following the reflecting team working format. A stanza form of transcription of the original video recording is used to present the narrative constructions of the consultation process, and the transformation of these constructions. This method of transcription and analysis seeks to convey to the reader the dynamics of tellings and reformulations of the client's problem story as they emerged in the conversational exchanges between consultant and client, and between the members of the reflecting team. The creation and use of an externalized fictive agent in the conversation is shown. This externalizing talk served to afford new agent…