narrative discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeanddiscourse
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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discourse
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnarrative discourse
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The evaluative elements are scattered all over the narrative and seem to form a variety of patterns fulfilling a number of functions innarrativediscourse.
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Narrativediscourseinvolves extended units of monologue text, of which the retelling of an original story is one type.
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This finding suggests that late talkers may possess weaknesses in their ability to process and express the interpretive elements ofnarrativediscourse.
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Narrativediscourseis composed of two parts: the foreground and the background.
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Narrativediscourseproficiency of learning disabled students : differences between elicitation procedures.
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The content ofnarrativediscoursein children and adolescents after early onset hydrocephalus and in normally developing age peers.
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This volume fully meets its aim of improving readers' understanding ofnarrativediscourseand its social dimensions.
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The verbs used in thenarrativediscourseconstructions were also lexical items.
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Theme omissions and limited use of ditransitive verbs may reflect language processing limitations related to the complex processing demands characteristic ofnarrativediscoursecontexts.
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The following is a typical example ofnarrativediscourseproduced by one of the participants containing many events, past tense verbs, and public verbs.
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The experimental measures included the phonemic awareness tasks of sound blending and elision (sound deletion) and thenarrativediscoursetasks.
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Whatever cognitive or interpersonal pattern gets created throughnarrativediscoursemust then influence the self.
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The ability of normally developing children to use appropriate anaphoric referential expressions in anarrativediscoursedevelops at a late stage of language acquisition.
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Narrativediscoursein neurologically impaired and normal aging adults, 115-34.
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Thus, the ability to enhance oralnarrativediscoursethrough the use of complex syntactic structures emerges just prior to school entry and increases with age.
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Linguistic complexity withinnarrativediscourseentails the ability to formulate grammatically complex sentences that indicate relations between focal events and subordinate, background events.
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They are not reported as combining temporally or causally related events required fornarrativediscourse.
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Intensifiers select one of the events that are organized in a linear series in anarrativediscourseand strengthen or intensify it.
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Non-personal constructions are far less common innarrativediscourse, where they tend to express evaluative generalizations in opening or closing the account.
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