Question
Which lines of the following story demonstrate Woofitt's fact-construction criteria for reporting paranormal events? Types of criteria include 1) sequential organization of discourse, 2) X/Y
Which lines of the following story demonstrate Woofitt's fact-construction criteria for reporting paranormal events? Types of criteria include 1) sequential organization of discourse, 2) X/Y format, and 3) active voices. What are these elements achieving?
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"EXTRACT 5 - TEA LIGHTS ON BED 1 V: (inaudible) When I was working on 2 ni:ght duty, when I was=I'd just qualified 3 as a as a student nurse after being a student 4 and it was la:st lot of night du:ty 5 (.) and I was working with my friends 6 Janet and Jane a::nd we had an old lady (.) 7 who was called ANnie and uh (0.5) 8 she'd been on the wards for >months and 9 months and months> (.) a::nd she had a 10 friend (.) an imaginary friend (0.5) 11 ca:lled Mr >Badger< (1.0) wh:o s:he invited 12 for tea every afternoon=we had to provide 13 (.) t:ea and (.) ta:lk to Mr Badger 14 (.) who (.) wasn't obviously (0.5) didn't 15 ex:ist (.) a::nd um (.) >anyway<=one 16 evening Annie DIED (0.3) a::nd (.) um (.) 17 Janet and I went in and laid her out(.) 18 >a:nd< made her look all lov:ely (.) and she 19 had a=a CROss: (1.0) a BLA:ck ebony cross 20 on a=on a leather tho:ng (0.7 ) tut (.) round 21 her nec:k (.) and
53 in a little (.) small ((inaudible) oo:h 54 there must have been (.) oh h:undreds of 55 them (.) Lit (1.0) a:ll around (0.6) 56 and a single red rose (.) in a vase (.) by 57 her bed (2.0) and (.) AB:solut>ely< no 58 explanation wh:at:soever for that at all:: 59 (.) AT all at all (.) we: a:ll (.) then 60 s:ortof came o:ut and (.) feeling all a bit 61 (.) s:care:d an:d (.) spooked (.) 62 a::nd um (2.0) and we went ba:ck to her (.) 63 fifteen minutes la:ter (.) 64 >and it was all gone again.<"
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