Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice

The papers in this volume concern events and narratives from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with fictional dialogue and the use of stereotypical gender roles in the construal of a story.

• The chapter by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz analyses the story by A.S.
• Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"; Hans Giessen looks at the first European Games held in Baku in 2015.
• Aleksandr N.
• Kornev and lngrida Balčiūnienė's present an experimental study into the verbalisations of causal relations.

Krzysztof Kosecki expertly discusses the coding of event structure in the language of the deaf; James Moir analyses career choice narratives. Bartosz Stopel's interesting article explains the role of Turner's double-scope blending theory for cognition and emotional response to narratives.

• Jacek Waliński focuses on fictive motion, whereas Paul Wilson's deals with human affectivity in conflict scenarios.
• The article by Magdalena Zabielska is a must to read, too.
• lt provides an analysis of medical records found in medical journals and treats them as a kind of narratives.