Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the students are expected to:
a)Recognize narrative discourse as an intersubjective device of making sense of others, as a communicative strategy to create and negotiate identities and as an immersive and engaging storyworld making mechanism.
b)Define the building blocks of narrativity and identify those features in unfamiliar narrative texts.
c)Use a variety of theoretical tools to analyze different instantiations of narrative discourse.
d)Develop research skills, work autonomously and formulate and communicate their ideas in a language other than their mother tongue
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course approaches narrative intersdisciplinarily as a socio-congitive mechanism of intersubjective communication and explores a variety of tools and frameworks, that have emerged within linguistics and narrative theory, for the analysis of narrative discourse. It presents a variety of concepts closely related to narrative communication such as narrative persuasion, narrative positioning, narrative evaluation, focalisation etc. and examines a variety of narrative texts. It also presents key research findings concerning the reception of narrative discourse and the way people process narratives. In conclusion, the course highlights the centrality of narrative for our civilization, for communicating and negotiating ideas and points of view and for identity construction.
Keywords
Narrative, narrativity, narratives, intersubjectivity,