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Basic introduction to Narrative Analysis & Research
Narratives have coherence in structure 'beginning; middle and end' but the sequence of narrative clauses in the narration may be different to the original sequence of related events. Free clauses refer to a condition true for the whole narrative.
Seminal sociolinguistic approach which divides narratives clauses into 6 types:
- Abstract (intially summarises narrative)
- Orientation (information re: time, place, participants)
- Complication (reports what next happened)
- Evaluation (interpretation of consequences)
- Resolution (result or resolution of actions)
- Coda (brings narrator to present/relevant information not part of story)
Labov (1997) adds the importance of issues of the transfer of narrators experience to the audience:
- * the biography of the speaker:
- * the circumstances of narration;
- * credibility;
- * narrator's theory of causality & allocation of praise /blame and;
- * narrator's viewpoint in shaping narrative.
The narrator is an exponent of cultural norms.
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