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A Multimodal Perspective on Applied Storytelling Performances

Narrativity in Context

Author: Soe Marlar Lwin   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

This volume proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic researchers’ conceptions of storytelling, highlighting the ways society uses storytelling as a communicative and educative tool.

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This volume proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic researchers’ conceptions of storytelling, highlighting the ways society uses storytelling as a communicative and educative tool.

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In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic researchers’ conceptions of storytelling. It aims to highlight the ways in which various institutions in contemporary society have been using live storytelling performances as an effective communicative, educative and meaning-making tool. Drawing on theories of narrative from narratology as well as from related fields such as discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, communication and performance studies, the author proposes a contextualized multimodal framework to

(a) uncover the potential narrativity of a live storytelling performance through an analysis of narrative elements constituting the story,

(b) capture the process of developing actual narrativity through a multimodal analysis of performance features in the storytelling discourse, and

(c) highlight the importance of context and dynamics between the storyteller and audience for an achievement of optimal narrativity in a particular storytelling event.

The sample analysis shows how the framework not only describes the system governing institutionalized storytelling performances in general but also serves as a useful model to examine individual performance as a unique realization of the general system. The book also offers implications for possible applications of such contextualized multimodal frameworks more broadly across the disciplines.

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Critic Reviews

“Lwin unites performance features and narrative content in order to analyze the emerging narrative structure by examining multiple live applied storytelling performances. Lwin focuses on the story, the storytelling discourse, and the storytelling event, which are the key elements in the proposed multimodal framework in an applied storytelling performance. Both scholars and practitioners alike should find Lwin’s approach to explaining the concepts of narratology, multimodal communication, stylistics, performance studies, and discourse analysis interesting and useful.”Kaitlin Cannava, PhD, Research Consultant and Lecturer, San Jose State University, USA
Review in Storytelling, Self, Society journal Vol 16, Issue 1

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About the Author

Soe Marlar Lwin is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
26th September 2019
Pages
162
ISBN
9781138481657

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