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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
31 May 1980-
About: The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.
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01 Jan 2004
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TL;DR: In the fourth century B.C. as discussed by the authors, a story is used as a mediating term between story (pragmata) and discourse (tragodia), and tragedy (discourse) can be an imitation of action (praxis/story).
Abstract: Mythos is used by Aristotle both in its received sense in his day, meaning a story which need not be literally true but has a special institutional status outside of literature, and in a sense which seems to be new in the fourth century B.C., as a rational ordering of events (synthesis ton pragmaton), a mediating term between story (pragmata) and discourse (tragodia). It is specifically by means of Mythos (whether invented or traditional) that tragedy (discourse) can be an imitation (mimesis) of action (praxis/story). The first meaning is close to the various nuances of ‘myth’ today, while the second is conventionally translated as the ‘plot’ of a literary text.
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...…has discarded the term 'plot' altogether, on the grounds that 'the arrangement [of incidents] is precisely the operation performed by the discourse' (Chatman 1978: 43), and with it the whole theory of Aristotelian mimesis; 'mimesis in words can only be mimesis of words' (Genette 1980: 164)....
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02 Oct 2012
TL;DR: Britto et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed how justice issues are re-stood in the media and how the communication of social justice issues in the mass media is related to the social behavior of media consumers.
Abstract: Is there a good end to the suffering of the maltreated child? Will the murderer
get caught, and does he deserve capital punishment? Who has to pay for the
loss of capital in the aftermath of a financial crisis? Who should have a voice
in political decisions on nuclear energy supplements? These and many other
questions point to an essential topic in human life: social justice
Results from content analyses have indicated that social justice is a frequenttopic in mass media communication (Britto & Dabney, 2010; Pollak &
Kubrin, 2007; Surette, 2007) The primary aim of this chapter is to discuss
how justice issues are reflected in the media and how the communication of
justice issues in the mass media is related to the social behavior of media
consumers We will focus on three different (but interrelated) functions or
effects of justice-related media content: First, media communication about
justice issues can promote the mobilization of people in order to oppose
existing injustice Second, justice can be understood as a key to entertainment
in media communication Third, dealing with justice issues in media formats
can provide important learning encounters for the development of justice-related
norms, beliefs, and attitudes Before we discuss these different functional roles of
justice in the media in more detail, we outline some fundamentals of how
justice is understood in social justice research
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TL;DR: Data added to the accumulating anecdotal reports suggesting that acupuncture is a promising adjunctive therapy for those nearing the end of life in the home hospice setting, suggesting more in-depth and precise assessment is warranted to comprehensively evaluate acupuncture as a viable adjunct to current usual and customary hospice care.
Abstract: In recent years, complementary and alternative medicine modalities, including acupuncture, have been incorporated intohospice careboth to address symptom distress and to enhance quality of life Beginning in 1997, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Hospice began offering limited acupuncture services to hospice patients and, in some cases, their caregivers Data collection-comprising a chart review (n = 71) and in-depth interviews with the two program acupuncturists-was initiated to explore in a preliminary fashion both the processes involved in acupuncture delivery and outcomes associated with this intervention Information culled from the patient charts (representing the year 2003) revealed a median age of 685 years, a cancer diagnosis in 63% of cases, and a median hospice length of stay of 102 days The most commonly cited chief complaints presented to the acupuncturists included pain (70%), anxiety (45%), shortness of breath (27%), and nausea/vomiting (14%) Patients received a median of three acupuncture treatments; excellent or good results were noted in the charts of 34% of patients whose chief complaint was pain, in 31% of anxiety chief complaints, in 22% of shortness-of-breath chief complaints, and in 29% for nausea/vomiting chief complaints The program acupuncturists described their practice with this group of patients as a departure from how they treat patients in a typical practice context They described a greater focus on providing comfort through ameliorating symptoms and a diminished focus on more holistic goals, which often are typical elements in an acupuncture intervention Nonetheless, acupuncturists also observed instances of outcomes in psychologic, social, and spiritual domains, regardless of whether these outcomes were the principal focus of treatment These data add to the accumulating anecdotal reports suggesting that acupuncture is a promising adjunctive therapy for those nearing the end of life in the home hospice setting More in-depth and precise assessment is warranted to comprehensively evaluate acupuncture as a viable adjunct to current usual and customary hospice care
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TL;DR: The authors argue that legal rules simultaneously have three overlapping forms, none of which is dominant: not only the form of conditional, if-then logic, but also that of a rhetorical situation and a stock story, in which the story's elements are reduced to classes of things, acts, and circumstances.
Abstract: Legal scholars typically understand law as a system of determinate rules grounded in logic. And in the public sphere, textualist judges and others often claim that judges should not “make” law, arguing instead that a judge’s role is simply to find the meaning inherent in law’s language. This essay offers a different understanding of both the structure of legal rules and the role of judges. Building on Caroline Levine’s claim that texts have multiple ordering principles, the essay argues that legal rules simultaneously have three overlapping forms, none of which is dominant: not only the form of conditional, “if-then” logic, but also that of a rhetorical situation (as Lloyd Bitzer defines it) and a stock story, in which the story’s elements are reduced to classes of things, acts, and circumstances. As a result, lawyers must tell stories, and legal decisions are a complex act of categorization in which a judge must decide whether the story before the court fits within the category of stories defined by the governing legal rule. This essay further suggests that if storytelling is inherent in law and legal practice, then legal textualism is flawed because it ignores both actual authors and actual audiences. In a very real sense judges do make law, and law’s legitimacy in a modern democracy depends on a judge’s willingness to consider the divergent voices of those who write the rules and who are bound by or benefit from them.
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