Analysis the Australian Children's Literature “Lennie Lighthouse” on Labov's Narrative Model

Lennie Lighthouse is written by Paul Jennings, who is an English-born Australian childrenbook writer. His books mainly focus on short stories whichcould lead the reader into an unusual series of events that ended with a twist. Now Paul Jennings has achieved a great success and has became a well-known children's book writer. In this paper, the stylistic features and the narrative structurein"Lennie Lighthouse"would be analyzed based on Labov's narrative model, especially the external evaluations and internal evaluationsin the story.Finally it intended to explore that how the children story could attract such a diverse group of readers and the structure of this legendary story would be deduced and writing stylewould be analyzed in this paper.

Narrative nursing for negative emotions in patients with acute pancreatitis:Based on model construction and application

BACKGROUND Acute pancreatitis(AP),as a common acute abdomen disease,has a high incidence rate worldwide and is often accompanied by severe complications.Negative emotions lead to increased secretion of stress hormones,elevated blood sugar levels,and enhanced insulin resistance,which in turn increases the risk of AP and significantly affects the patient's quality of life.Therefore,exploring the intervention effects of narrative nursing programs on the negative emotions of patients with AP is not only helpful in alleviating psychological stress and improving quality of life but also has significant implications for improving disease outcomes and prognosis.AIM To construct a narrative nursing model for negative emotions in patients with AP and verify its efficacy in application.METHODS Through Delphi expert consultation,a narrative nursing model for negative emotions in patients with AP was constructed.A non-randomized quasi-experimental study design was used in this study.A total of 92 patients with AP with negative emotions admitted to a tertiary hospital in Nantong City of Jiangsu Province,China from September 2022 to August 2023 were recruited by convenience sampling,among whom 46 patients admitted from September 2022 to February 2023 were included in the observation group,and 46 patients from March to August 2023 were selected as control group.The observation group received narrative nursing plan,while the control group was given with routine nursing.Self-rating anxiety scale(SAS),self-rating depression scale(SDS),positive and negative affect scale(PANAS),caring behavior scale,patient satisfaction scale and 36-item short form health survey questionnaire(SF-36)were used to evaluate their emotions,satisfaction and caring behaviors in the two groups on the day of discharge,1-and 3-month following discharge.RESULTS According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria,a total of 45 cases in the intervention group and 44 cases in the control group eventually recruited and completed in the study.On the day of discharge,the intervention group showed significantly lower scores of SAS,SDS and negative emotion(28.57±4.52 vs 17.4±4.44,P<0.001),whereas evidently higher outcomes in the positive emotion score,Caring behavior scale score and satisfaction score compared to the control group(P<0.05).Repeated measurement analysis of variance showed that significant between-group differences were found in time effect,inter-group effect and interaction effect of SAS and PANAS scores as well as in time effect and inter-group effect of SF-36 scores(P<0.05);the SF-36 scores of two groups at 3 months after discharge were higher than those at 1 month after discharge(P<0.05).CONCLUSION The application of narrative nursing protocols has demonstrated significant effectiveness in alleviating anxiety,ameliorating negative emotions,and enhancing satisfaction among patients with AP.

Narrative modeling and cultural literacy in the storyworld:a quest for meaning

Following Per Aage Brandt's"Towards a cognitive semiotics"(2011),culture as a cognitive-semiotic model allows us to look into the interrelation of cognition and signs through the act of interpretation of culture.Thus,culture characterized as habits of feeling,attention,thought,and action plays a role of modeling in the lifeworld.Regarding cultural evolution,culture also has a feature of practice of habit-taking for transformation through dialogic relations of semiosis from Peirce's semiotic perspective.This paper argues for narrative modeling which enables habit-taking in feelings by way of analogical reasoning in a form of parable as cognitive process.A story in a form of qualia as a model for thought is embodied in narrative modeling to be enactive by a storytelling agent.Therefore,narrative modeling reveals the process of thought through habit-taking in feelings of empathy and sympathy to a feeling of an idea as a person.This leads to an act of understanding other mind,sharing the meaning and value of a story for enhancing sensibility and cultural literacy for cultural evolution.This journey of story-making and story-telling by way of narrative modeling shows a trajectory for a quest for meaning and value which will be found between"you"and"I".