NarraText
Narrative
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The NarraText
Narrative Map presents the parts, form, and structure of
Narrative: Story and Discourse
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| Transcript: Narrative
consists of Story (WHAT is told) (Content) includes Existents - people, places, things, ideas Events - Actions and Happenings States - Traits, Dispositions, Conditions Activities - Nominalized Events and States (Gerund Phases) Goals/Purposes - (Infinitive Phrases) Expository - Substantives, complements, adjuncts, and propositons that reflectAuthor's cultural codes and intent form Story components or architectual elements and their connections substance Expository (Substantives, complements, adjuncts, and propositons that reflectAuthor's cultural codes and intent) Discourse (HOW it is Told) (Expression) includes Manifestation/Means - method Structure of Transmission - Narrative architectual elements form Architectural elements shared by narratives regardless of means or medium substance The media, means, or method used to communicate the narrative Adapted from: Seymour Chatman, "Story and Discourse - Narrative structure in Fiction and Film", Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978 |