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Boston University Department of Psychology

Richard Ely-Human Development Program Faculty

  Ph.D., Tufts University

 
Richard Ely
 

Instructor
Currently I am exploring how personal narratives reflect aspects of personality in children and adults. Past research has included studies of children's language play, quotations, use of negation, and apologies.




 
Email: rely@bu.edu, Office Phone (617) 353-3204
Fax Phone (617) 353-6933
 
Webpage: http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/ely/  

 

Selected Publications:

Ely, R., Abrahams, R., MacGibbon, A., and McCabe, A. (in press). I beat them all up: Self-representation in young children's personal narratives. In M. Bamberg, A. De Fina, and D. Schiffrin (Eds.), Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ely, R., and Gleason, J. B. (2006). I’m sorry I said that: Apologies in young children’s discourse. Journal of Child Language, 33, 599-620.

Ely, R. (2005). Language and literacy in the school years. In J. B. Gleason (Ed.), The development of language (6th edition) (pp. 395-443). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Ely, R., Gleason, J. B., MacGibbon, A., and Zaretsky, E. (2001). Attention to language: Lessons learned at the dinner table. Social Development, 10, 355 - 373.

Ely, R., MacGibbon, A., and Hadge, L. (2001). I feel scared all the time: Themes of passivity and disaffiliation in children's personal narratives. Narrative Inquiry,10, 453 - 473.

Ely, R., MacGibbon, A., and McCabe, A. (2000). She don't care: Negatives in children's narratives. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 46, 465 - 490.

Ely, R., Melzi, G., Hadge, L., and McCabe, A. (1998). Being brave, being nice: Themes of agency and communion in children's narratives. Journal of Personality, 66, 257 - 284.

 
 

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