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| They are stories that color our perceptions, understanding, and reasoning about the settings in which we act and acted upon. They provide us with sequence of action or episodes that can be related to one another to make a whole. |
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| Placement of specific occurences, problems, and even persons and thoughts within a story line is a communicative activity, an act of rhetorical invention. An inherent element of all narratives and of narratival logic. Provides a context for ordering the elements of an episode and interpreting the meaning. |
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| A structure of relationships by which the events contained in an account are endowed (doue,genereux) with a meaning by being identified as parts of an intregrated whole. |
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| Help us determine the meaning of a story through its episodic dimension (chronological. Ex: and so? and then?What happened next? What was the outcome?) and configurational operation (extracting a pattern from the sequencing into a meaningful whole) |
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| A normative universe. Example: right or wrong. paradigm for action. a world of inhabit. The force of share commitments (small, or private) (massive or public) that determine our laws, customs, politics, economics, and our traditions. |
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| Narrative quest. It seeks to bring closure to a story, to fill its gaps. |
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| Arguments that advance good reasons for public choices of judgment and conduct. Such arguments are moral based on value choices for responsible public conduct. |
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| Humans are valuing as much as reasoning creatures. |
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| Refers to the coherence of the story. 1- Argumentative or structural coherence 2- Material coherence (testing the narrative in relation to other narratives told in other discourses to see whether they agree. 3- Characterological coherence (reliability of a character based on a set of actional tendencies) |
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| Being part of that history. Having a tradition that exerts an important defining force on our beliefs and values as a member of our clan or nation. |
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| the extend to which the story rings true with the stories the audience members have known to be in their lives. |
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| Narratives don't just tell stories, they have a voice. The presentational quality of a narrative, it provides orientation through its point of view. We can interpret narrative voice as reliable quality of Ethos, authoritative way within our culture value or belief) or unreliable (unsupported claims, ignorance, internal unconsistencies) |
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