The Secondary Purposes of Rhetorical Questions in the Holy Quran by محمود خورسندی, سمیه ترحمی, علیرضا خورسندی

“…There are two kinds of questions in the Quran: questions posed by God and Questions narrated from others. As God is omniscient and never seeks information, all these questions must be considered as rhetorical questions. …”
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Znad dworu panny Heleny przed dom Poety. Kategoria narracji a obecność autora w „Lawie” i „Bohini” Konwickiego by Przemysław Kaniecki

“…Kaniecki zwraca również uwagę na podobieństwo kategorii autobiografizmu w tych dwóch dziełach (obydwa mają charakter paraboliczny), przy czym podkreśla, jak bardzo różni się w nich obecność autora. W przypadku Bohini narrator może być identyfikowany wprost z „ja” Konwickiego jako podmiotem sylleptycznym (określenie zaproponowane przez Ryszarda Nycza). …”
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Memória social da Batalha do Jenipapo: trilhas e enredos patrimoniais em Campo Maior (PI) by Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes, Juliana Rodrigues Cavalcante

“…Within this memory boom, we focus the process of assigning meanings to an event narrated by historiography and oral tradition as an important fight in the process of Brazil's independence, viz. the battle of Jenipapo, which occurred in the village of Campo Maior (PI), in the northeastern region of Brazil, on the banks of the River Jenipapo on March 13, 1823. …”
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Determination of Father in Artificial Insemination Based on Jurisprudence and Islamic Law by Ezat Sadat Mousavi Dorcheh, Seyed Hamid Jazayeri, Hashem Niazi

“…Because of independence between imperatives and positive rules, the positive rules of parentage in artificial insemination could be independently criticized.In this regard, the aim of this article is to examine different opinions in the specific evidence of positive rules of parentage regarding the determination of the father, as well as criticizing these views and choosing the right point based on verses and narrations.Based on the result of this paper, the right view is that these children belong to the owner of sperm and other views are rejected because of the invalid reasons. …”
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Tree Beings in Tibet: Contemporary Popular Concepts of klu and gnyan as a Result of Ecological Change by Jakub Kocurek

“…The study is based on fieldwork undertaken in the Tibetan areas of India and Nepal (the Spiti valley and Dolpo) among people of Dolpo origin living elsewhere and Tibetans in exile from different regions of Tibet. Gathered narratives and reappearing myth patterns are presented and discussed. …”
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«El Camino que nos une»: una historia política del Qhapaq Ñan by Oscar Espinoza Martín

“…This paper focuses on how the Qhapaq Ñan, both text and artefact simultaneously, is linked to the history of contemporary Peru and specific narratives about road systems, integration, and Indigenous communities. …”
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Une frontière en mouvement : espace public, espace privé dans les cités mayas (Basses Terres centrales et méridionales) by Damien Bazy

“…The analysis identifies discontinuities that separate public from private spaces, as well as continuities applying the notion of « thick boundaries ». The « political narratives » produced by the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the site maps for selected cities contribute more broadly to the research on Classic urbanism in the Central-Southern Lowland Classic Maya cities.…”
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Madame Bovary et ses trente-quatre « vous », ou le retour du refoulé by Alain Vaillant

“…And yet, in Madame Bovary, he intentionally introduces, thirty-four times, outside of any dialogue situation, a second person (you, yours, your…) that suggests the presence of a narrator addressing, beyond his characters, his readers – or even worse, strangely merging his readers with his characters. …”
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The Potential Impacts of The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) On Human Rights in Uganda. by Mugabi. K. Ivan.

“…This paper shall seek to borrow ideas from land rights, environmental rights and other right based narratives in demonstrating how and why the EACOP project is not only the most exciting socioeconomic but also a project giving room for opposing phenomenological discourses most of which are hinged upon ideas of human rights. …”
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Digital (Dis)connection, Agency, and Imagination in a French Rural Community by Fabienne Darling-Wolf

“…While certainly useful in helping us understand the dynamics of digital practices and spaces, these narratives often fail to provide a fuller portrait of individuals’ broader relationship to the technological world shaped not (only) by their digital media use (or lack thereof) but also by their mere awareness of the existence of digital tools. …”
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Latin American decolonial feminisms: theoretical perspectives and challenges by Bárbara Martínez-Cairo, Emanuela Buscemi

“…It is here argued that decolonial feminisms employ this alternative perspective as a de facto standpoint, by rooting their principles in anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist narratives, and with some strong established goals, such as social and environmental justice, the rights of indigenous people, and the decolonization of knowledge.…”
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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…Close readings of Hannah’s work reveal conspicuously “southern” narratives of historical haunting, trauma and guilt, implying that the burden of history remains a useful means of understanding late twentieth century regional fiction. …”
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Immigrant Memoirs in the Service of Americanization: Between “the Melting Pot” and Cultural Pluralism by Anita Jarczok

“…It argues that these life narratives represent diverse perspectives on the Americanization process: two of them – Cash's and Antin's – seem to endorse the assimilationist point of view, while the other two – Panunzio's and Ravage's – lean more towards arguments voiced by cultural pluralists. …”
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« Voir les voix » : les Juifs d’Égypte, d’une rive l’autre by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The following interview with Marisol Misenta, known professionally as Isol, discusses a number of ways in which the award-winning author, musician, and occasional comics artist from Argentina brings together music, singing, and narration through images in what she calls “una poción para soñar” (a concoction to dream about). …”
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« Inverser la plaisanterie afin de secouer le joug » ou comment vicier un stéréotype by Jacqueline Berben

“…A California professor, a painter, an author and an occasional rancher Percival Everett appears as an iconoclast who often undermines racial and political stereotypes, ethnocentric and cultural narratives while provoking the academic establishment by making fun of its various literary theories. …”
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THE TURKISH-GERMAN AFFAIR IN FILMS: A DREAMWORLD OR A NETHERWORLD? by Ayça Tunç Cox

“…Through a critical analysis, this article explores how Turkish cinematic narratives have accounted for the thorny Turkish-German relations in the last two decades. …”
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Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse by Kris Hartley

“…Policy facts are now contested in ways that disrupt mainstream political narratives and weaken institutional legitimacy. In turn, the technocratic response of doubling-down on facts is faltering as the ‘burn it down’ vacuity of post-truth declares equivalent political legitimacy. …”
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Devenir « personne-ressource » : gestes professionnels emblématiques d’une posture d’ajustement d’enseignants spécialisés by Bruno Grave

“…These help to define different scales of this adjustment posture. Analyzed from narratives of teaching practice, these moments also allow access to the strategic dimension of the posture of adjustment, in particular by declining the THINK pole of the systemic diamond into MOBILIZE-DESIGN-PROJECT.…”
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« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

“…., the reader also finds the usual Thackerayan phenomenon of split personality, the narrator and the illustrator being one and the same person. …”
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