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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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TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical reflection on transmedia storytelling from a perspective that integrates semiotics and narratology in the context of media studies is presented, and the analysis includes a description of the multimedia textual structure created around the Fox television series 24.
Abstract: Many concepts have been developed to describe the convergence of media, languages, and formats in contemporary media systems. This article is a theoretical reflection on “transmedia storytelling” from a perspective that integrates semiotics and narratology in the context of media studies. After dealing with the conceptual chaos around transmedia storytelling, the article analyzes how these new multimodal narrative structures create different implicit consumers and construct a narrative world. The analysis includes a description of the multimedia textual structure created around the Fox television series 24. Finally, the article analyzes transmedia storytelling from the perspective of a semiotics of branding.

397 citations


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  • ...Classical researchers like Bremond (1973) or Chatman (1978) considered narrative structures to be independent of any media....

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Book
06 Apr 2009
TL;DR: An Introduction to Narratology as mentioned in this paper is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature, including a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field.
Abstract: An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the field how students can use narratological theory to work with texts, incorporating detailed practical examples a glossary of useful narrative terms, and suggestions for further reading. This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field. It demystifies the subject in a way that is accessible to beginners, but also reflects recent theoretical developments and narratology’s increasing popularity as a critical tool.

395 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This article investigated the accessibility of information from situation models during narrative comprehension and found that the accessibility depends more on the described situations than on the surface organization of the narrative, and that information accessibility depended on the location of the protagonist in the situation model rather than recency of mention of the rooms in the text.

394 citations

Book ChapterDOI
26 Feb 2004
TL;DR: The authors make a distinction between utterance-type meaning and utterance token meaning, which is important from a linguistic point of view, and make use of this distinction to distinguish between utterances and tokens.
Abstract: At the outset, I want to make a distinction that is important from a linguistic point of view: a distinction between utterance-type meaning and utterance-token meaning (Levinson, 2000). Any word, phrase, or structure has a general range of possible meanings, what we might call its meaning range. This is its utterance-type meaning. For example, the word “cat” has to do, broadly, with the felines, and the (syntactic) structure “subject of a sentence” has to do, broadly, with naming a “topic” in the sense of “what is being talked about.”

364 citations