Re: narrative
pprior who-is-at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Fri, 3 May 1996 09:55:34 -0500
My sense, perhaps especially from reading Bruner's analyses of Emily's crib
narratives, is that Bruner sees narrative as particularly fundamental not
because it is the dominant mode of discourse, but because it is a
fundamental mode of perception and thought, the way children come to
construct their on-going flow of experience--the events of their lives--and
the framework within which they come to construct worlds through the
sociocultural appropriation of symbolic means.
Paul Prior
p-prior who-is-at uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign