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TEXT COMPARISON
KEY NAMES
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11th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
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Chapter 19—Narrative Paradigm
- Walter Fisher
- A professor emeritus at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California who developed the narrative paradigm of communication.
- Phatic communication
- Communication aimed at maintaining relationship rather than passing information or saying something new.
- Narration
- Symbolic actions—words and/or deeds—that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create, or interpret them.
- Paradigm
- A conceptual framework; a universal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lens.
- Rational-world paradigm
- A scientific or philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines of argument.
- Narrative paradigm
- A theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication.
- Narrative rationality
- A way to evaluate the worth of stories based on the twin standards of narrative coherence and narrative fidelity.
- Narrative coherence
- Internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hangs together.
- Narrative fidelity
- Congruency between values embedded in a message and what listeners regard as truthful and humane; the story strikes a responsive chord.
- Ideal audience
- An actual community existing over time that believes in the values of truth, the good, beauty, health, wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, harmony, order, communion, friendship, and oneness with the cosmos.
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KEY NAMES
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11th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
List mode: Normal (click on theory name to show detail) | Show All details | Clear details
Chapter 19—Narrative Paradigm
- Walter Fisher
- A professor emeritus at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California who developed the narrative paradigm of communication.
- Phatic communication
- Communication aimed at maintaining relationship rather than passing information or saying something new.
- Narration
- Symbolic actions—words and/or deeds—that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create, or interpret them.
- Paradigm
- A conceptual framework; a universal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lens.
- Rational-world paradigm
- A scientific or philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines of argument.
- Narrative paradigm
- A theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication.
- Narrative rationality
- A way to evaluate the worth of stories based on the twin standards of narrative coherence and narrative fidelity.
- Narrative coherence
- Internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hangs together.
- Narrative fidelity
- Congruency between values embedded in a message and what listeners regard as truthful and humane; the story strikes a responsive chord.
- Ideal audience
- An actual community existing over time that believes in the values of truth, the good, beauty, health, wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, harmony, order, communion, friendship, and oneness with the cosmos.
You can access the Key Names for a particular chapter in several ways:
- Switch to View by Theory, then select the desired theory/chapter from the drop-down list at the top of the page. Look in the list of available resources.
- To quickly find a theory by chapter number, use the Table of Contents and link from there. It will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
- You can also use the Theory List, which will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
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