Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice

The papers in this volume concern events and narratives from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with fictional dialogue and the use of stereotypical gender roles in the construal of a story. The chapter by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz analyses the story by A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”; Hans Giessen looks at the first European Games held in Baku in 2015. Aleksandr N. Kornev and lngrida Balčiūnienė’s present an experimental study into the verbalisations of causal relations. Krzysztof Kosecki expertly discusses the coding of event structure in the language of the deaf; James Moir analyses career choice narratives. Bartosz Stopel’s interesting article explains the role of Turner’s double-scope blending theory for cognition and emotional response to narratives. Jacek Waliński focuses on fictive motion, whereas Paul Wilson’s deals with human affectivity in conflict scenarios. The article by Magdalena Zabielska is a must to read, too. lt provides an analysis of medical records found in medical journals and treats them as a kind of narratives.

Preface 7 Janusz Badio, A fictional dialogue against selected linguistic outlooks on spoken language and conversation 9 Janusz Badio, Use of stereotypical social gender roles in an L2 narrative construal task by advanced, Polish learners of English 27 Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, “Beings of secondary order”: Framing and intertextuality as narrative tools in A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” 41 Hans Giessen, The first European Games – contrasting narratives 51 Aleksandr N. Kornev and Ingrida Balčiūnienė, Verbal explication of (intra-)inter-event causal relations in the story-telling: Comparative study of primary language-impaired and typically-developed pre-schoolers 61 Krzysztof Kosecki, Event structure as a metonymic target and vehicle in the languages of the deaf 77 James Moir, Career choice narratives: engineering personality types? 89 Bartosz Stopel, Double-scope blending of associative and causal event structures in narratives 103 Jacek Waliński, Route verbs in English and Polish expressions of fictive motion 115 Paul A. Wilson, Conflict scenario emotion events in reality television: a cross-cultural perspective 127 Magdalena Zabielska, The patient was admitted…, operated… and recovered quickly… – a narrative study of medical events in the abstract section of English case reports from otolaryngology 141