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Trends in Research on Narrative Development

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Language Acquisition

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Abstract

In the post(-post) modern twenty-first century, the notion ‘narrative’ is so all-encompassing as to be almost vacuous. Here the term is confined to a special genre of verbal discourse that is agent-oriented, focused on people, their actions and motivations, and expresses the unfolding of events in a temporal framework (Labov, 1972; Longacre, 1996). As such, narratives contrast with, say, expository discourse, which focuses on concepts and issues or with descriptive discourse, which characterizes the properties of objects, people and places. Bruner (1986) characterizes narrative as a distinct ‘mode of thought’, while Turner proposes that ‘Story is a basic principle of mind’ (Turner, 1996, p. v). Also relevant to characterizing the narrative genre is the distinction between narrative as a type of mental representation and storytelling as an activity (Berman, 1995; Clark, 2004).

I am grateful to Irit Katzenberger and Bracha Nir-Sagiv for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.

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Berman, R.A. (2009). Trends in Research on Narrative Development. In: Foster-Cohen, S. (eds) Language Acquisition. Palgrave Advances in Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230240780_13

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