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Narrative – State of the ArtEdited by Michael Bamberg
[Narrative Inquiry 16:1] 2006
► pp. 37–45
Edited by Michael Bamberg
[Narrative Inquiry 16:1] 2006
► pp. 37–45
Narrative pre-construction
Before a narrative can be constructed, it must be pre-constructed by a cognitive process that begins with a decision that a given event is reportable. Pre-construction begins with this most reportable event and proceeds backwards in time to locate events that are linked causally each to the following one, a recursive process that ends with the location of the unreportable event — one that is not reportable in itself and needs no explanation. Comparison of such event chains with the sequence of narrative clauses actually produced will help to understand how the narrator re-organizes and transforms the events of real time in the finished narrative.
Keywords: Events, Reportability, Orientation
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