If you appear on my show risk or on any other oral storytelling show on stage or on the radio or online, you want to make sure to include two essential ingredients of all stories. The first thing you need is a human. At least one a story usually centres on a person you might think...
--Noam Chomsky (1928- ): Syntactic Structures (1957) Language is “the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols.” --Robert A. Hall (1911-1997): Introductory Linguistics (1964) “Language is a system of ...
For example, researchers have found that older people show evid- ence of increasingly complex reasoning about interpersonal issues, life planning and moral dilemmas (Pratt, Golding & Kerig, 1987), and they perform better than younger adults with respect to oral narrative production (Pratt & Norris...
The legal status of the foetus was an issue debated by jurists in the Middle Ages on the basis of the Quran, the Sunna and the hadiths (oral reports concern- ing the words and deeds of the prophet Muhammad). The foetus' relationships with her parents, her extended family, her community...
Definitions A Development: the natural progression from a less complex to a more complex stage, including the biologic, intellectual, be havioral, and social skills domains B. Growth: the increase in size of all or part of a living being in the process of development C. Maturation: ...