Put simply, a narrative can be nearly any linguistic function. When one person puts any kind of story or occurrence into words, he or she creates a narrative. As described by Abbott, such a narrative can literally be created by anyone; even a child. “’I fell down,’ the child cries, and in the process tells her mother a little narrative, just as I have told in this still unfinished sentence a different, somewhat longer narrative that includes the action of the child’s telling.” (1)
Moreover, when looking at the slightly varied version of a global media narrative, as is appropriate for this class, we should assume that because of the addition of the cyber world our definition of a narrative must be different. However, this assumption is not fully true as the basic meaning of the word stays the same and only varies slightly. Instead of a narrative being about an occurrence that generally is within close proximity of the speaker, a global media narrative allows the speaker to give an account of an event thousands of miles away because of his or her knowledge of said event through modern media.
Works Cited:
Abbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Print.
Dear Aaron,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the blog post.
Within our course discussion, the merging of the "real" world and the "storyworld" is a crucial issue.