How is Narrative Derived?

Mushafau Ade Kukoyi
Designing For Human Experience
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02-22-06

How is Narrative Derived?

Narrative is one of the fundamental means through which we understand, organize and explain our experiences. This core concept of narrative plays a vital role in our learning, our communication and our social interaction; which also include art and recreational activities. In fact, all form of communication involves a narrative pattern of storytelling.

By simple definition, the term narrative, regardless of its context (either philosophical, scientific or legal) could also refers to a form of story; a visual interpretation of some aspect of the world that is historically and culturally shaped by human personality. Furthermore, narration can also be describe as symbolic actions, words, and/or deeds that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create or interpret them.

The concept of narrative can be derived from simple semiotic, which involves individual building blocks of meaning called signs, while studying the way by which such signs are combined into codes in other to transmit messages. This can be regarded as part of a general communication system, which uses both verbal and nonverbal elements through which information is encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. the type of signs and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.

Human beings seem to prefer to communicate or share information in form of a story line. Rather than organizing data as fact in logical sequence, in fact, most people

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