TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
T1  - Generational styles in oral storytelling
BT  - What can be learned from narrative priming?
JF  - Narrative inquiry
N2  - When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental ‘Narrative Priming’ setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students’ narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online.
KW  - generational styles
KW  - priming
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - experimental
KW  - positioning
KW  - narrative templates
KW  - French
KW  - doing storytelling
KW  - narratives from personal experience
KW  - spoken language
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger
SN  - 1387-6740
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stange, Maike
A1  - Hintsche, Marius
A1  - Sachse, Kirsten
A1  - Gerhardt, Matthias
A1  - Valleriani, Angelo
A1  - Beta, Carsten
T1  - Analyzing the spatial positioning of nuclei in polynuclear giant cells
JF  - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
N2  - How cells establish and maintain a well-defined size is a fundamental question of cell biology. Here we investigated to what extent the microtubule cytoskeleton can set a predefined cell size, independent of an enclosing cell membrane. We used electropulse-induced cell fusion to form giant multinuclear cells of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Based on dual-color confocal imaging of cells that expressed fluorescent markers for the cell nucleus and the microtubules, we determined the subcellular distributions of nuclei and centrosomes in the giant cells. Our two- and three-dimensional imaging results showed that the positions of nuclei in giant cells do not fall onto a regular lattice. However, a comparison with model predictions for random positioning showed that the subcellular arrangement of nuclei maintains a low but still detectable degree of ordering. This can be explained by the steric requirements of the microtubule cytoskeleton, as confirmed by the effect of a microtubule degrading drug.
KW  - Dictyostelium
KW  - cell nucleus
KW  - positioning
KW  - imaging
KW  - spatial poisson distribution
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa8da0
SN  - 0022-3727
SN  - 1361-6463
VL  - 50
IS  - 46
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -