Homo inventans: The evolution of narrativity

McNeil, Lynda D.

doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(96)00025-0

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“…A phylogenetic model of narrative development compatible with the one laid out here can be found in McNeil (1996). Mulholland and Collins (2002) have presented a description of the episodic and semantic memory systems -and their relationship to schemas and narrative -that closely matches the one included here.…”

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confidence: 54%

Toward a narrative pedagogy for interactive learning environments

Hazel

2008

Interactive Learning Environments

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The use of narrative within interactive learning environments (ILEs) is widespread. Reviewing recent research in the fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, discourse analysis, and education, this paper proposes a rationale for the use of narrative in ILEs. Starting with a description of the origin of narrative in the brain, the paper shows how memories are grouped into relational networks, commonly called schemata. These in turn are used as structural devices to allow fast and efficient cognitive processing, memory chunking, etc. Time-sensitive memories and their expression through narrative are seen as being at the core of human identity and culture. The issues of coherence, context, and assessment of narratives are then examined within the context of ILEs, with a concluding discussion on the coconstruction of meaning using narratives.

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Section: P Hazelsupporting

confidence: 54%

Toward a narrative pedagogy for interactive learning environments

Hazel

2008

Interactive Learning Environments

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“…Stories have evolved to perform a complex set of pedagogic functions, from exchanging useful informa-tion between peers, to apprenticing children to their society's behavioural norms and ideological principles (Bruner 1996;McNeil 1996). They confer adaptive advantages on a speech community at three general levels.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Systemic Functional Approach to Language Evolution

Rose

2006

CAJ

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An approach to interpreting possible steps in language evolution is offered here from systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theory. SFL models language at three levels from sounds to wordings to complex patterns of social discourse. Typological studies in this framework have shown striking commonalities at each level across languages, that are not yet adequately accounted for by existing models of language phylogenesis. Four conditions are suggested for developing explanatory models that may account for these linguistic phenomena. These include (a) a mechanism for reproducing complex cultural behaviours intergenerationally over extended time, (b) a sequence by which articulated wordings could evolve from non-linguistic primate communication, (c) extension of the functions of wording from enacting interpersonal interactions to representing speakers' experience, and (d) the emergence of complex patterns of discourse for delicately negotiating social relations, and for construing experience in genres such as narrative. These conditions are explored, and some possible steps in language evolution are suggested, that may be correlated with both linguistic research and archaeological models of cultural phases in human evolution. The aims of the article are to offer some useful tools to the field of language evolution, at the same time as indicating potential interpretations of existing work, using insights from SFL research.

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“…Stories (narrative) are one of the fundamental ways in which humans organize and make sense of their lives and the circumstances around them (Bruner, 1991;McAdams, 1997). Storytelling constitutes a distinct form of communication that is recognizable across cultural and geographic divides and is deemed an innate social skill of the human species (McNeil, 1996;Prince, 1982). Stories we tell ourselves provide us with a sense of identity.…”

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Strategic Entrepreneurial Storytelling: An Applied Framework for Better Pitches

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Duening

2020

CMR

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Entrepreneurs are responsible for bringing innovative products and services to market. However, in order to bring new value to consumers, most entrepreneurs must secure funding. An integral component in the process of resource acquisition is the entrepreneur’s story. Very little research has dealt with the storytelling structure that a good pitch should use. Stories are a fundamental part of the way human beings understand themselves and the world around them. This paper synthesizes the current state of entrepreneurial storytelling and builds a parsimonious framework for strategic entrepreneurial storytelling (SES) through qualitative analysis of actual pitches. Our framework will help entrepreneurs build intentional and compelling stories for their investment pitch through the concepts of SES context, content, and execution.

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Homo inventans: The evolution of narrativity

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

Toward a narrative pedagogy for interactive learning environments

Toward a narrative pedagogy for interactive learning environments

A Systemic Functional Approach to Language Evolution

Strategic Entrepreneurial Storytelling: An Applied Framework for Better Pitches

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