The Narrative Dimensions Model and an exploration of various narrative genres

IF 0.9 4区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI:10.1075/ni.19069.van

Dorien Van De Mieroop

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Abstract

Abstract In the last few decades, the analytical scope of narrative studies has widened from a sole focus on “prototypical” narratives of personal experience to a wide variety of narrative genres. However interesting this may be, there are also some problems with these genres as there is not only sometimes considerable overlap between different genres, but there are also differences within these genres. Furthermore, real-life stories often consist of a mix of various genres, which makes applying genre-labels to these narratives problematic. Hence, instead of making such genre classifications, I propose an abstract “Narrative Dimensions Model” to tease out the relevant characteristics of and differences between various types of narratives. This model consists of two three-dimensional clusters, viz., one revolving around the narrator and containing the dimensions of ownership, authorship and tellership, and one revolving around the narrated events, containing the dimensions of frequency, time and evaluation. I illustrate this by a theoretical exploration of various narrative genres and I conclude by sketching the advantages of conceptualizing and scrutinizing narratives by means of this model.

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叙事维度模型与多种叙事类型的探索

近几十年来，叙事研究的分析范围从单一的个人经验“原型”叙事扩展到多种叙事体裁。尽管这可能很有趣，但这些类型也存在一些问题，因为不同类型之间不仅存在大量重叠，而且这些类型之间也存在差异。此外，现实生活中的故事通常由各种类型的混合组成，这使得将类型标签应用于这些叙事存在问题。因此，我不做这样的类型分类，而是提出一个抽象的“叙事维度模型”来梳理不同类型叙事的相关特征和差异。该模型由两个三维聚类组成，一个围绕叙述者，包含所有权、作者身份和讲述者身份维度;一个围绕被叙述事件，包含频率、时间和评价维度。我通过对各种叙事体裁的理论探讨来说明这一点，最后我概述了用这种模式概念化和审视叙事的优势。

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Narrative Inquiry Multiple-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.