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Gura, Timothy – Communication Education, 1983
Describes an exercise that introduces students to the unique characteristics of the third-person narrator and also improves skills in observation, story telling, and analysis. (PD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Narration, Oral Interpretation
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Pearse, James A. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1980
Discusses metafiction (contemporary fiction) and the new relationship between subject and reader that challenges traditional practice of point of view in fiction. Suggests ways for the interpreter to deal with the performance of metafiction. (JMF)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Communication (Thought Transfer), Fiction, Literary Criticism
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Ferrington, Gary – Journal of Visual Literacy, 1994
Explores the concept of "theater of the mind" and discusses design factors in creating audio works that effectively stimulate mental pictures, including: narrative format in audio scripting; qualities of voice; use of concrete language; music; noise versus silence; and the creation of the illusion of space using monaural, stereophonic,…
Descriptors: Audiences, Audio Equipment, Auditory Stimuli, Design Preferences
Bowie, David G.; Schallert, Diane L. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1988
In a study of the processes used to compose a story, 12 Portuguese/English bilingual adults created narrations for 2 published, wordless picture stories and, while viewing a videotape of their narration, recalled aloud the processes they used in constructing the stories. One study was narrated in Portuguese and the other in English. The narrations…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Higher Education