Download or read book Form-function Relations in Narrative Development written by E. Birgitta Svensson and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional linguistics, and writing pedagogy theory. This book extends previous studies on narrative writing development since it provides a multifaceted window into the progression of narrative development, from elementary school through secondary school and university to life as a professional journalist and writer. It also shows how narrative writing development is related to the cognitive, emotional/psychological and social development of the individual.