W. FISCHER’S “NARRATIVE PARADIGM” IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH
Evelina Vladimirovna Barbashina
Novosibirsk State Medical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: narrative research, “narrative turn”, narrative and rational paradigms, persuasiveness of narrative, social control of narrative
Abstract
One of the significant fields in narrative research is the development of the “narrative paradigm” carried out by W. Fischer. It has been determined that the main differences in the understanding of narrative and the narrative paradigm are associated, firstly, with considering narrative as a universal form of communication and, secondly, with recognizing the “argumentative” function of narrative as a priority. The persuasiveness of a narrative depends on its internal coherence, credibility, and consistency with the values and beliefs of the listener or audience. The advantages of the narrative paradigm in comparison with the rational one are analysed. In W. Fisher’s view, they are that in the narrative paradigm social control is excluded, introducing to it is carried out naturally, the participants in the narrative paradigm are equal due to the exclusion of experts and, in addition, it has not only descriptive, but also normative functions. The moral status of the narrative paradigm is shown to be at least problematic. But social control is possible.
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