The present study frames the patterning of factual, schematic inference, and interpretive
information over time in conversational storytelling using dynamic systems theory. This …

Why are some narratives more successful? Although this question has ancient roots,
studying it empirically has been challenging. We suggest that semantic progression (ie …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Part II of this book brings together three Harré texts that explore the centrality of
conversations in both social reality and the study of that reality. Three fundamental insights …

Studying narratives is often the best way to gain a good understanding of how various
aspects of human information are organized and integrated—the narrator employs specific …

A conversational approach is developed to explain the ubiquitous presence of rumors,
urban legends, and gossip as arising from their conversational properties rather than from …

Although recent work in fields including discourse analysis, narratology, and narrative
psychology1 has thrown light on the forms and functions of stories, the project of developing …

Joseph Campbell's theory of the “monomyth” posits a narrative deep structure underlying all
human storytelling. In his words, the monomyth represents the expression of “principles …

This lecture proposes that language, as a whole, belongs to the group of processes that
Mandelbrot (1982) recognises as “natural fractals”. This assumption involves a new …

There is a substantial body of literature on storytelling in a number of fields, including
Linguistics, Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication …