Narratives Flashcards
What are Narratives?
The telling of experience
What are Narratives used for?
1) Report on,
2) Evaluate,
3) Regulate Activities
4) Provide implicit common organisation of experience
5) Provide feeling of emotional involvement and solidarity
Why are Narratives compelling?
They not only provide a landscape of action (what happens), they also provide a landscape of consciousness (what those involved know, think or feel)
What is Coherence?
Good r/s between Text & Context
What are the Categories of Context?
1) Immediate (Setting, Participants & Purpose of Activity)
2) Wider (BG culture of Participants & Knowledge of it, General Knowledge of World, Shared Knowledge of Previous Events)
What is a Critical Component of Coherence?
Topic (What the Text is about)
What are the Narrative Structure Analyses?
1) Degree of Independence
2) Story Grammar
3) Cohesion
4) Story Art
How do we examine young children’s storytelling?
For the degree & nature of prompting required + independent performance sampling & analysis
What Perspectives do Children take when story-telling?
1) Narrator (Tell story)
2) Stage Manager (Discuss interpretations & direct actions)
3) Actors (Provide dialogue)
What are intertwined in Children’s Narratives?
Imaginative Narrative & Dramatic Play
What are the 3 Types of Adult Support in Story-telling?
1) Conversational (Selecting incident, organising telling, providing needed details & elaborating on details)
2) Historical (Sort out what happened in original event & which aspects of the event should be recounted for the story)
3) Psychological (Show or determine child’s emotional perspective)
What does Story Grammar deal with?
Episodic Structure (How propositions are related to form goal-directed, problem-solution units that describes protagonist’s motivations & goals, the efforts to achieve the goals & the outcomes of such efforts)
What is Story Grammar?
Mental Schema used for encoding, representing & retrieving events
What type of narratives are expected of each age group?
1) Young children (pre-episodic narratives)
2) School-age children (episodic narratives)
What are the 3 types of Pre-Episodic Sequences?
1) Descriptive
2) Action
3) Reaction