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Narratology
About: Narratology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2833 publications have been published within this topic receiving 50998 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theory.
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TL;DR: The authors examines a narrative taken from an ethnographic interview, for the speaker's conversational construction of lesbian and other identities along with ideologized personal history, in order to tell her story, Marge shifts to the discourse style used in the meetings of addiction recovery groups.
Abstract: This paper examines a narrative taken from an ethnographic interview, for the speaker's conversational construction of lesbian and other identities along with ideologized personal history. To tell her story, Marge shifts to the discourse style used in the meetings of addiction recovery groups. She prioritizes the recovery (twelve-step) program's coherence system, structuring her life story in conformity with its terms while narrating a complexly queered identity. Four analyses are given, beginning with a Labovian formal examination and proceeding with a consideration of three types of discourse echoing: inter-discursivity, intratextuality, and manifest intertextuality. This study demonstrates the analytical linking of nonpublic linguistic discourse to social discourses; individual identity construction to social construction (and its coherence systems); and personal history to historical eras. The paper adds the concept of a metalevel complicating action to narrative theory and develops a means of examining intratextuality for critical discourse analysis. It presents a revised view of essentialism for the sociolinguistic study of gender and sexuality
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TL;DR: The authors pointed out that the theoretical apparatus of narratology has mainly been developed on the basis of one specimen of narrative text: the novel, which is understandable from both a historyi-
Abstract: Headed by Barthes ("Innombrables sont les recits du monde"), narratologists claim as the object of their study a vast and heterogeneous corpus of texts: "newspaper reports, history books, novels, films, comic strips, pantomime, dance, gossip, psychoanalytic sessions," etc. (Rimmon-Kenan 1983: 31).1 However, the theoretical apparatus of narratology has mainly been developed on the basis of one specimen of narrative text: the novel. This is understandable from both a histori-
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TL;DR: The authors trace three modes of rhetorical video game scholarship inspired by the ludology vs. narratology anxiety: ludic scholarship, transitional scholarship, and communicative scholarship, or work that investigates how video games communicate as one would examine any other media.
Abstract: Game-studies scholars have adopted the phrase “ludology vs. narratology” to explain a tension in video game scholarship. Ludology is the perspective that video games should be studied with their uniqueness as a medium at the foreground while narratology is the study of games that take that uniqueness for granted in order to ask broader questions. In this essay, I perform a critical literature review in which I trace three modes of rhetorical video game scholarship inspired by the ludology vs. narratology anxiety: (1) ludic scholarship, or work focused on discovering what makes video games different than other media, (2) transitional scholarship, or work that sees video games as different but moves beyond merely targeting those differences and into other arguments, and (3) communicative scholarship, or work that investigates how video games communicate as one would examine any other media, namely by taking the differences between games and other media as granted. Ultimately, I forecast that the ludic anxie...
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, a computerized narrative psychological content analysis is proposed based on a narrative theory of identity development and cultural evolution. But it is not based on psychometric correlations between individual differences in language use and psychological phenomena.
Abstract: As opposed to approaches which look for psychometric correlations between individual differences in language use and psychological phenomena, computerized narrative psychological content analysis is founded on a narrative theory of identity development and cultural evolution. Narrative psychological content analysis connects psychological contents to linguistic-structural features of narratives. The present paper outlines the theoretical considerations, which led to the scientific narrative psychology and presents the framework of the empirical studies.
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01 Dec 1998
TL;DR: With its assumptions about the interpersonal origins of individual learning, narrative theory suggests certain leadership functions for group therapists: providing a perspective on how multiple meanings may be constructed about experience; leading the process of deconstructing individual narratives through careful questioning to distinguish persons from problems; enlisting participants in active awareness and engagement with group dynamics and group process; and enabling the co-creation of a group narrative through the development of a new "community of conversations" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: With its assumptions about the interpersonal origins of individual learning, narrative theory suggests certain leadership functions for group therapists: providing a perspective on how multiple meanings may be constructed about experience; leading the process of deconstructing individual narratives through careful questioning to distinguish persons from problems; enlisting participants in active awareness and engagement with group dynamics and group process; and enabling the co-creation of a group narrative through the development of a new “community of conversations.”
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