Narrative as a Mode of Explanation: Evolution and Emergence

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Chapter Chapter 12 in Modes of Explanation, 2014, pp 151-159 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Narrative is a linguistic form that accommodates fictional as well as factual accounts of the world. It is, of course, widely recognized that there has always been a long and leaky boundary between the two apparently orthogonal concepts of “fact” and “fiction,” and narrative straddles both. This hybrid nature of narrative is a salient feature that endows the form with its challenging ambiguity and recursive complexity.

Keywords: Linguistic Form; Narrative Analysis; Narrative Genre; Fictional Discourse; Generic Form Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137403865_12

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