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A Cross-Campus View of Story in Teaching, Research, and Outreach

A Cross-Campus View of Story in Teaching, Research, and Outreach. Co-sponsored by The Digital Union, The Office of Faculty and TA Development, The Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Research, The Ohio State University Libraries, and Project Narrative.

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A Cross-Campus View of Story in Teaching, Research, and Outreach

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  1. A Cross-Campus View of Story in Teaching, Research, and Outreach Co-sponsored by The Digital Union, The Office of Faculty and TA Development, The Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Research, The Ohio State University Libraries, and Project Narrative

  2. Approaches to stories and storytelling David Herman Department of English/Project Narrative (http://projectnarrative.osu.edu)

  3. Two storytelling situations--and what they suggest about the nature of narrative • Bicycle Wreck*: Story told on-site by JTH, in Snowbird, NC, in May 2002 • Ghost Dogs*: Story told off-site during an interview recorded in January 2002, in JTH’s mother’s house in Robbinsville, NC *Research on these stories was supported by NSF Grants BCS-0236838 and BCS-9910224

  4. Bicycle Wreck

  5. Ghost Dogs

  6. A dimensional approach to narrative (Ochs and Capps 2001: 20)

  7. Another dimension of storytelling: Narrative ways of worldmaking Simulating worlds Cross-comparing worlds (Ghost Dogs) (Bicycle Wreck) - shift to a storyworld removed - ongoing comparison between from the here and now storyworld and the here and now

  8. A working definition of narrative A story can be characterized as: • A representation that is situated in—must be interpreted in light of—a specific discourse context or occasion for telling. • The representation, furthermore, cues interpreters to draw inferences about a structured time-course of particularized events. • In turn, these events are such that they introduce disruption or disequilibrium into a storyworld involving human or human-like agents, whether that world is presented as actual or fictional, realistic or fantastic, remembered or dreamed, etc. • The representation also conveys the experience of living through this storyworld-in-flux, highlighting the pressure of events on real or imagined consciousnesses affected by the occurrences at issue.

  9. Acknowledgments • I am grateful to Neil Hutcheson, Walt Wolfram, and the North Carolina Language and Life Project (http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/ncllp/) for their invaluable assistance with my research on the stories discussed in this talk.

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