Chapter 24 - Narrative Paradigm

Question 1

Phatic Communication

Answer 1

Communication aimed at maintaining relationships rather than passing along information or saying something new

Question 2

Narration

Answer 2

Symbolic actions - words and/or deeds - that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create, or interpret them

Question 3

Paradigm

Answer 3

A conceptual framework, a universal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lens

Question 4

Rational-World-Paradigm

Answer 4

A scientific or philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions in the basis of evidence and lines of arguement

Question 5

Narrative Paradigm

Answer 5

A theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication

Question 6

Narrative Rationality

Answer 6

A way to evaluate the worth of stories based on the twin standards of narrative coherence and narrative fidelity

Question 7

Narrative Coherence

Answer 7

Internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hangs together

Question 8

Narrative Fidelity

Answer 8

Congruence between values am bedded in a message and what listeners regard as truthful and humane; the story strikes a responsive chord

Question 9

Ideal Audience

Answer 9

An actual community existing over time that believes in the values of truth, the good, beauty, health, wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, harmony, order, communion, friendship, and oneness with the cosmos