Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

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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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Exploring Mechanisms of Narrative Persuasion in a News Context: The Role of Narrative Structure, Perceived Similarity, Stigma, and Affect in Changing Attitudes

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Daniel J. Tamul¹, Jessica Hotter¹•Institutions (1)

Virginia Tech¹

28 Oct 2019

TL;DR: This paper showed that narrative format improves stigma toward Syrian refugees indirectly through narrative engagement, perceived similarity, and meaningful affect, and showed that decreased stigma also improved attitudes toward refugees, while disentangling the roles of story exemplars from story structure.

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Abstract: Two exploratory studies demonstrate, for the first time, that narrative persuasion can diminish the stigma attached to social groups featured in journalistic narratives. Study 1 shows narrative format improves stigma toward Syrian refugees indirectly through narrative engagement, perceived similarity, and meaningful affect. Decreases in stigma also improved attitudes toward refugees. Study 2 replicates these findings against a separate participant pool, an additional story topic, and compares changes in engagement, stigma, and attitude to a non-narrative fact sheet and a control condition. A preregistered third study seeks to validate the finding that narratives can elicit destigmatization and disentangle the roles of story exemplars from story structure.

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5 citations

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...Here, we provide a brief overview of literary structuralism or narratology, which is concerned to with identifying and understanding the essential components of a narrative text (Chatman, 1978) rather than the content of particular literary works....
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...Rather, discourse is the manner in which those elements are delivered (Prince, 1987) through an “expression plane” (Chatman, 1978, p. 146) that, for example, considers the narrator’s voice or whether there is a narrator at all, the reader’s point of view, and commentary from the author on events....
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...Plot can also be defined as the justification for how and why story elements are described, arranged, and their relationship to one another (Cobley, 2014) or how readers “become aware of what happened” (Chatman, 1978, p. 20)....
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...Structuralists or narratologists would argue narrative texts are fundamentally composed of story and discourse (Chatman, 1978) and we will address each in turn....
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...Abbott (2002) defines narratives as representations of events, an encompassing view; Cobley (2014) stipulates that narratives are representations of events and that includes the manner in which the representation takes place as part of narrative— what (Chatman, 1978) would call discourse....
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Writing, Speech, and Silence in Mrs. Dalloway

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Edward Bishop

01 Jan 1986-English Studies in Canada

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Challenging Theories: Conceptual Learning in the Media Studies Classroom

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Anthony Partington, David Buckingham

01 Sep 2011-International Journal of Learning and Media

TL;DR: This paper explored the nature and role of conceptual learning in the teaching of media studies and provided evidence of productive ways in which theoretical concepts can be interrogated and problematized in the classroom, both through a process of shifting between abstractions and concrete examples and by combining critical analysis and creative media.

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Abstract: This article explores the nature and role of conceptual learning in the teaching of media studies. The article begins by reviewing previous research in the field and revisiting earlier debates, employing theories of concept formation drawn from Vygotsky, Bruner, and Engestrom; it then presents an analysis of data drawn from a series of lessons with an eighth-year class, focusing on the concept of narrative and specifically on the issue of point of view. The article considers how the students use “spontaneous” and “scientific” concepts drawn from narrative theory to interpret media texts and to produce their own, and it outlines brief case studies of four students who adopt different stances in their use of academic theory and metalanguage. The article provides evidence of the productive ways in which theoretical concepts can be interrogated and problematized in the classroom, both through a process of shifting between abstractions and concrete examples and by combining critical analysis and creative media...

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5 citations

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...Derived from Chatman (1978) and Genette (1980)....
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Psychonarratology: Represented Speech and Thought

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Marisa Bortolussi, Peter Dixon

01 Jan 2002

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An information-theoretic evaluation of narrative complexity for interactive writing support

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Hochang Kwon¹, Hyuk Tae Kwon¹, Wan Chul Yoon¹•Institutions (1)

KAIST¹

01 Jul 2016-Expert Systems With Applications

TL;DR: This paper proposes a method to quantitatively evaluate narrative complexity at the recipient's cognitive level, and to effectively utilize the evaluation to aid in the author's narrative creation process.

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Abstract: We evaluate narrative complexity from the information processing perspective.The knowledge flow reflects the information processing of narrative agents.The amount of information processed by recipients is used as a complexity measure.The proposed measure captures the characteristics of narratives at a content level.The evaluation method can support an author in the interactive writing process. Narrative complexity should be managed systematically during the creation process because it heavily influences the levels of understanding and the interest of recipients. Existing research has tended to depend on impressionist criticism or to deal with narrative complexity at general and superficial levels. In this paper, we consider the creation and acceptance of narrative as information processing mediated by a narrative text. Under this assumption, we propose a method to quantitatively evaluate narrative complexity at the recipient's cognitive level, and to effectively utilize the evaluation to aid in the author's narrative creation process. Within our knowledge distribution model, a narrative is represented as a knowledge structure, and the knowledge state and knowledge flow of narrative agents are evaluated using a probabilistic reasoning model. From the knowledge flows, the amount of information processed and required by the recipient is calculated as a measure of the narrative complexity using entropy theory. As a case study, we conduct a comparative analysis of an actual cinematic narrative and a structurally manipulated version of that narrative to show how the method captures characteristics and changes of the narrative; we also discuss the improvements presented in this paper as compared to our previous research.

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