Narrative And Argument

Author : Paula Olmos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319568836

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This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument”, includes five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and characteristically philosophical issues related to the argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently approached certain topics that have a close connection with mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part, entitled “Argumentative Narratives in Context”, brings us six more chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative discourse.

Author : Richard Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106018784220

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Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691212074

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Narrative Economics by Robert J. Shiller Pdf

From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

Author : Emma Kafalenos
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814210253

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Narrative Causalities by Emma Kafalenos Pdf

Narrative Causalities offers both an argument and a methodology. The argument is that interpretations of the consequences and causes of events are contextual and that narratives, by determining the context in which events are perceived, shape interpretations. The methodology, on which the argument is based, is a theory of functions. A function, in this theory, is a position in a causal sequence. A set of functions provides a vocabulary to analyze and compare interpretations of the causes and consequences of events-in our world, in narratives about our world, and in fictional narratives.

Author : Catherine Palczewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317652854

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Disturbing Argument by Catherine Palczewski Pdf

This edited volume represents the best of the scholarship presented at the 18th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation. This biennial conference brings together a lively group of argumentation scholars from a range of disciplinary approaches and a variety of countries. Disturbing Argument contains selected works that speak both to the disturbing prevalence of violence in the contemporary world and to the potential of argument itself, to disturb the very relations of power that enable that violence. Scholars’ essays analyze a range of argument forms, including body and visual argument, interpersonal and group argument, argument in electoral politics, public argument, argument in social protest, scientific and technical argument, and argument and debate pedagogy. Contributors study argument using a range of methodological approaches, from social scientifically informed studies of interpersonal, group, and political argument to humanistic examinations of argument theory, political discourse, and social protest, to creatively informed considerations of argument practices that truly disturb the boundaries of what we consider argument.

Author : Michael Toolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317224594

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Making Sense of Narrative Text by Michael Toolan Pdf

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and the reader’s experience in the course of reading narratives, and particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing are all central to the book’s argument about how readers process story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive stylistics, and literary text and texture.

Author : Anna De Fina,Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118458150

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The Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Anna De Fina,Alexandra Georgakopoulou Pdf

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page

Author : Patricia Dutcher-Walls
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567150264

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Narrative Art, Political Rhetoric by Patricia Dutcher-Walls Pdf

Narrative, rhetorical, ideological and sociological methods reveal an intricately related set of meanings in 2 Kings 11-12.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226713326

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Time and Narrative, Volume 1 by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Author : Byron Almén
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253030283

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A Theory of Musical Narrative by Byron Almén Pdf

Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative illustrated by a wide variety of musical examples that highlight the range and applicability of the theoretical apparatus. Almén provides a careful delineation of the essential elements and preconditions of musical narrative organization, an eclectic analytical model applicable to a wide range of musical styles and repertoires, a classification scheme of narrative types and subtypes reflecting conceptually distinct narrative strategies, a wide array of interpretive categories, and a sensitivity to the dependence of narrative interpretation on the cultural milieu of the work, its various audiences, and the analyst. A Theory of Musical Narrative provides both an excellent introduction to an increasingly important conceptual domain and a complex reassessment of its possibilities and characteristics.

Author : Ian Johnston
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770485655

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Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays by Ian Johnston Pdf

How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of the construction of arguments in essay form. The focus here is on practical advice that will prove immediately useful to students—recommended procedures are emphasized, and detailed examples of academic and student writing are provided throughout. The book introduces the basics of argumentation before moving on to the structure and organization of essays. Planning and outlining the essay, writing strong thesis statements, organizing coherent paragraphs, and writing effective introductions and conclusions are among the subjects discussed. A separate section concisely explores issues specific to essays about literary works.

Author : Wanda Teays
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030992651

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Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction by Wanda Teays Pdf

This volume offers original essays exploring what ‘fictive narrative philosophy’ might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy. The first part of the book presents theoretical essays that examine Boylan’s recent books: Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels and Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Literature can Act as Philosophy. The second and third part offer essays on how Boylan executes his theory in the practice within his novels from his two series De Anima and Archē. The book clearly shows the unique aspects of the fictive narrative philosophy approach. First, it makes story-telling accessible to wide audiences. Second, story-telling techniques invoke devices that can set out complicated existential problems to the reader that offer an additional approach to thorny problems through the presentation of lived experience. Third, the discussion of these devices is a way to explore philosophical problems in a way that many can profit from. The book concludes with an essay in which Boylan responds to the critical challenges set out in Part One and the practical criticism set out in Parts Two and Three. Boylan addresses the key claims made by his objectors and defends his position. He engages with the authors in the way his theory is matched against his actual novels. This is useful reading for both philosophers and professors of literature teaching introductory as well as upper-level courses in the fields of philosophy, literature and criticism.

Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827591

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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by Audrey Fisch Pdf

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

Author : Noël Carroll,John Gibson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271048574

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Narrative, Emotion, and Insight by Noël Carroll,John Gibson Pdf

"A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas,L. Gregory Jones
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579100650

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Why Narrative? by Stanley Hauerwas,L. Gregory Jones Pdf

Narrative Theology is still with us, to the delight of some and to the chagrin of others. 'Why Narrative?Ó is in reprint because it represents what is still a very important question. This diverse collection of essays on narrative theology has proven very useful in university and seminary theology classes. It is also of great use as a primer for the educated layperson or church study group. Jones and Hauerwas have done an excellent job of selecting representative essays that deal with appeals to narrative in areas such as personal identity and human action, biblical hermeneutics, epistemology, and theological and ethical method.