Narrative communication
Kind of detached commutation
Narrative communication is a kind of a detached communication, where the person who is speaking is more involved in what he/she says rather than in the person who he/she is saying it to.
Description
Narrative communication is a way of communicating through telling stories. Narratives can be defined as a symbolic representations of cohesive and coherent events with an identifiable structure, which are bounded in space and time and contain implicit or explicit messages about the topics being addressed. Most often, narratives are used to make sense of a past situation, express an opinion or belief, or teach cultural lessons. This use of narrative communication may be more persuasive and engaging than enumerating facts and statistics because narratives create an experience in which people can live through the storyteller's unique perspective.
What is narrative communication?
The theory of narrative communication was developed by Walter Fischer. A narrative is an account of events over a passage of time shared to one or many listeners. More than a mere story, narratives encompass larger aspects. For example, a story is generally describing or recounting a noteworthy event in someone's life, whereas a narrative for example is not just the event but could describe multiple events to a whole sequence of someone in more detail than just telling one single story about the person.
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