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Dominant narratives are often discussed in tandem with counternarratives. This term has been described as an "invisible hand" that guides reality and perceived reality. [2] Dominant culture is defined as the majority cultural practices of a society. [3] Dominant narrative is similar in some ways to the ideas of metanarrative or grand narrative.
The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a broad traditional classification of the major kinds of formal and academic writing (including speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpose: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation.
The granularity of narrative extends from broad ideologies at the highest level to middle level personal myths (positive thinking of oneself as a successful smart dominant, or submissive inferior [28]), reaching the lowest level of behavioral scripts or schemas for particular dominant-submissive social situations. [29] Categories of myth include:
Narrative forms have been subject to classification by literary theorists, in particular during the 1950s, a period which has been described metaphorically as the Linnaean period in the study of narrative. [1] Epistolary - a story usually in a letter written form with a section of dialogue; Narrative forms include:
Mark Orbe, a communication theorist, has suggested that in the U.S. the dominant group consists of white, heterosexual, middle-class, males. [71] Thus, groups that distinguish themselves from the dominant one in terms of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, and economic status can potentially be silenced or muted. [71]
narrative content, narrative discourse, narrative transportation, and; narrative persuasion. Narrative content and discourse are the linguistic antecedents of narrativity. Narrative content reflects the linear sequence of events as characters live through them—that is, the backbone and structure describing who did what, where, when, and why.
Postmodern narratives will often deliberately disturb the formulaic expectations such cultural codes provide, [20] pointing thereby to a possible revision of the social code. [21] In communication and strategic communication, a master narrative (or metanarrative) is a "transhistorical narrative that is deeply embedded in a particular culture". [22]
In Marxist philosophy, the term dominant ideology denotes the attitudes, beliefs, values, and morals shared by the majority of the people in a given society. As a mechanism of social control, the dominant ideology frames how the majority of the population thinks about the nature of society, their place in society, and their connection to a social class.