One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader's forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. --From publisher's description.
Inhalt: 1. Einleitung (u. a. Was "bringt" eine gestalttheoretische Betrachtung von Lebensgeschichten?) 2. Zur Gestalthaftigkeit des Erlebens 3. Zur Gestalthaftigkeit von Erinnerung und Erzählung 4. Zur Gestalt erzählter Lebensgeschichten 5. Die heilende Wirkung biographischen Erzählens 6. Methodologische Implikationen 7. Literatur (PHF/Übern.)
On September 23, 2020, the New York Post reported that "President Trump had signed an executive order expanding a ban on government agencies receiving sensitivity training involving critical race theory to federal contractors" (Moore). By the time this executive order passed, I had already planned to teach a course titled "Rhetoric of Storytelling" that included a Critical Race Theory (CRT) reading from Aja Martinez advocating for counterstory. In response to the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests during the summer of 2020, my academic department, like many institutions nationwide, issued a statement in support of Black Lives Matter. In addition, my department formed a reading group and working group on anti-racist pedagogy that discussed texts and strategies for incorporating more voices of color into curriculum. Still, when my department met at the beginning of the quarter, I was in a breakout session with a white, male colleague, who expressed confusion as to how he might incorporate non-white voices into his first-year and advanced writing courses. With all the shade intended, I told him that the first week alone of first-year writing featured three women of color, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Obama, and Amy Tan. While "Rhetoric of Storytelling" was not labeled a "diversity" course within my university's core curriculum, the course meets the advanced writing requirement for all students at my institution, and the inclusion of BIPOC writers and scholars in such a course demonstrates how courses can avoid upholding white supremacist practices that center white voices as authoritative and necessary. Through the inclusion of voices of color, we can recognize authors from diverse backgrounds as holders and creators of knowledge, too. "Rhetoric of Storytelling" looks at the purposes of storytelling across different rhetorical traditions, beginning with Ancient Greek and Roman traditions and traversing African American, Indigenous Latin American, American Indian, feminist, and Latinx rhetorical traditions. The course operates from the assumption that storytelling is an epistemic practice, and that storytelling and narration serve similar, if not the same, purpose as academic writing, drawing on the lived experiences of the writer. In fulfilling the course's goals, the students are to: 1) formulate and articulate the significance, role and purpose of storytelling based on course material; 2) participate actively and responsibly as a member of a small learning community to build knowledge on writing, rhetoric, and storytelling; 3) effectively analyze, interpret, and evaluate literary, critical, and theoretical texts; 4) recognize commonplace arguments about storytelling and articulate counterarguments; and 5) design and complete a substantial and original research or writing project.
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre -- Part One: From Figures of Inquiry -- Chapter 1: Returning Pluralism to Political Science: A Programmatic Manifesto for Rhetoric of Political Inquiry -- Origins -- Purposes -- Politics -- Problematics -- Ends -- Chapter 2: Returning History to Political Science: A Disciplinary Archaeology of Amnesia in Political Argument -- Disciplines -- Presentations -- Histories -- Traditions -- Chapter 3: Turning Underground into Approved Rhetorics: A Partial Confession from a Scientizing Discipline -- Approved versus Underground Rhetorics -- Confession -- Propriety -- Decorum -- Chapter 4: Overturning Argument in Political Science: An Apostate Meditation on Disappointments of Political Theory -- Detachment -- Skepticism -- Reflection -- Recognition -- Ascension -- Reconstruction -- Chapter 5: Returning Argument to Political Inquiry: A Mythic Narration of Models, Statistics, and Other Tropes -- How Political Science Lost Its Arguments -- The Behavior Vanishes -- The Regression of Political Science -- How Rational Choice Theory Got Its Paradoxes -- Tropes, Traps, Tokens, and Detours -- Part Two: To Myths of Action -- Chapter 6: Turning Politics into Words: A Rhetorical Invention of Evidence and Argument -- Words, Words Everywhere, and Many a Meaning to each -- Not Just Data but Reality -- The Center Cannot Hold -- The Play's the Thing -- Chapter 7: Turning Ideologies into Myths: A Postmodern Essay in Political and Rhetorical Analysis -- Analogy -- Ethos -- Logos -- Pathos -- Mythos -- Example -- Chapter 8: Turning Governments Every Which Way but Loose: A Poetic Experiment in Politics and Communication -- Female Metaphors -- Mything Words -- Immersing Myths -- Measuring Humans -- Dueling Myths -- Strange Attractors.
Vor dem Hintergrund der konstruktivistischen Wende, die weite Teile der Methodendiskussion bestimmt, wird die spezifische, als interaktiv zu bezeichnende Plausibilisierung der autobiographischen Erzählung rekonstruiert. Der Fokus wird dabei auf jene Sequenzen gesetzt, in denen die Erzählerin ihre Spracherwerbsprozesse darstellt. Verhaltensdaten (ihre gut ausgebauten Deutschkenntnisse, die im Interview offensichtlich sind) werden mit der Schilderung ihrer Schlüssererlebnisse kontrastiert, bei der sie angibt, Deutsch v.a. über das Fernsehen erworben zu haben. Die spezifische Rolle des Leidens wird hervorgehoben und mit Erkenntnissen aus der Spracherwerbsforschung in Beziehung gesetzt, wo immer deutlicher wird, wie erfolgreicher Erwerb und Emotion in enger Beziehung zueinander stehen.
What is the connection between philosophical enquiries and storytelling in contemporary narrative? Is it possible to outline some features of a so-called philosophical fiction in Western literature throughout the last two centuries? 0This book aims to provide a plural answer, hosting extensive essays by seven young researchers coming from different fields (Theory of literature, German, American, Russian and Italian contemporary literature, history and evolution of the essayistic form). 0The volume is addressed to all those with a strong interest in both evolution of philosophical speech and history of the novel and has a strong vocation to promote interdisciplinarity in literary studies
'The Power of Narrative' provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.