{"id":8514,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/narrative\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:32","slug":"narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially, a detailed story that can be written or spoken, and from these forms can be biographical, fictitious or historiographical in nature. &nbsp;In fact, it is evident in all human acts of creativity involving not only writing and speech, but also visual media such as film, television, painting, photography and theater. &nbsp;It constitutes one of four rhetorical strategies, the others being argumentation, description and exposition. &nbsp;Narrative analysis has become an interdisciplinary enterprise within the context of qualitative research. &nbsp;Here, the likes of field notes, letters, oral life histories, interviews and family stories are some of the units of analysis that are studied in order to provide a means of gaining understanding of how people create meaning in their lives. &nbsp;It employed as a research tool in, for example, education, cognitive science and sociology. &nbsp;Jerome Bruner, in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semiootika.ee\/sygiskool\/tekstid\/bruner.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.semiootika.ee\/sygiskool\/tekstid\/bruner.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Acts of meaning<\/span><\/a> (1990), regards narrative as a potent means of communicating meaning, as well as providing insights into how memories are constructed in this respect. &nbsp;Claims for its strength is that it is interdisciplinary, has universality, and serves as a bridge between theory practice. &nbsp;It does, however, have difficulties, perhaps the main one being an enormous diversity with regard to theory and method making various studies incompatible with each other. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.duke.edu\/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FPhilosophy&amp;Uil=ojf&amp;subpage=profile\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/philosophy.duke.edu\/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FPhilosophy&amp;Uil=ojf&amp;subpage=profile  ?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Owen Flanagan<\/a>, a respected authority on narrative analysis, stated in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theassc.org\/files\/assc\/2269.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.theassc.org\/files\/assc\/2269.pdf&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Conscious reconsidered<\/span><\/a> (1992) humans are inveterate storytellers from an early age, and that they are engaged in portraying their identity in an narrative form.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"content_analysis\">Content analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"conversation_analysis\">Conversation analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"discourse_analysis\">Discourse analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"qualitative_research\">Qualitative research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially, a detailed story that can be written or spoken, and from these forms can be biographical, fictitious or historiographical in nature. &nbsp;In fact, it is evident in all human acts of creativity involving not only writing and speech, but also visual media such as film, television, painting, photography and theater. &nbsp;It constitutes one of &hellip; 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