Abstract
Issues regarding the relationship between narration and argumentation, as alternative or contiguous enunciative modes or discursive genres, are currently attracting the interest of many within the interdisciplinary community of argumentation scholars. The present collection of essays has achieved to gather an international group of scholars, mainly, but not exclusively, from the field of Argumentation Theory, and put together an anthology of 11 original chapters on Narration as Argument from different perspectives. It tries to be, in this sense, a panoramic state-of-the art book in which the variety of approaches share nevertheless certain common principles and goals.
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Visual argument, as a research topic that shows some parallel with narrative argument is also invoked by other contributors to the volume (Van den Hoven, Olmos) as a paradigm from which something might be learnt.
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It is interesting to mention how this idea is also present in the essential book jointly signed by the Nobel-Prize winning novelist John M. Coetzee and psychologist Arabella Kurtz (2015) in which they discuss our capacity to grasp the correctness of “hypothesis regarding human experience”.
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She uses examples by well-known literary authors like Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov or Demidov, among others.
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It has to be noted, moreover, that the tradition of the medical or clinical history as evidentiary source (as already emphasized by Lain Entralgo 1950) has made medical doctors very sensitive to the narrative quality of their expertise, a consideration that has recently given rise to the movement of Narrative Based Medicine: “a wholesome medical approach that recognizes the value of people’s narratives in clinical practice, research, and education as a way to promote healing”, as Wikipedia defines it.
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Olmos, P. (2017). Introduction: Narratives, Narrating, Narrators. In: Olmos, P. (eds) Narration as Argument. Argumentation Library, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56883-6_1
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