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Story Grammar

This page provides links to information about Story Grammar analysis.

Greenslade, Bogart, Gyory, Jaskolka, & Ramage (2024) -- Story grammar analyses capture discourse improvement in the first two years following traumatic brain injury
Greenslade, Stuart, Richardson, Dalton, & Ramage (2020) -- Macrostructural analyses of Cinderella narratives in a large nonclinical sample
Brookshire & Nicholas (1995) -- Presence, completeness, and accuracy of main concepts in the connected speech of non-brain-damaged adults and adults with aphasia
Richardson, Dalton, Greenslade, Jacks, Haley, & Adams (2021) -- Main concept, sequencing, and story grammar analyses of Cinderella narratives in a large sample of persons with aphasia
Roth & Spekman (1986) -- Narrative discourse: Spontaneously generated stories of learning-disabled and normally achieving students

Setting -- habitual or static states of characters and locations
- major setting
- minor setting
Initiating Events -- the immediate cause for a response on the part of the protagonist
- natural occurrence
- action
- internal event
- verbalization
Response -- the psychological state of the character after the initiating event or a verbal response to the situation
- affective response
- goal
- cognition
Plan -- statements that specify a character's strategy for obtaining the goal
Attempt -- the character's overt action(s) to obtain the goal.
Direct Consequence -- the character's success or failure at attaining the goal(s); any changes in the sequence of events resulting from the character's actions
- natural occurence
- action
- end state
Reaction -- the way the character feels or reports feeling about the outcome; the character's thoughts regarding success or failure
- affect
- cognition
- action

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Training materials available on request from Kathryn Greenslade -- Kathryn.Greenslade@unh.edu