![]() Moreover, the approach recognizes that, in telling what happened, narrators give accounts of characters whose interactions with each other have an ethical dimension and that the acts of telling and receiving these accounts also have an ethical dimension. The focus on purposes includes a recognition that narrative communication is a multi-layered event, one in which tellers seek to engage and influence their audiences’ cognition, emotions, and values. It gives special attention to the relations among tellers, audiences, and the something that has happened. This conception has several significant consequences for the kinds of knowledge about narrative the approach seeks. ![]() More formally, the rhetorical theorist defines narrative as somebody telling somebody else on some occasion and for some purpose(s) that something happened. ![]() In this view, narrative is not just a representation of events but is also itself an event-one in which someone is doing something with a representation of events. The rhetorical approach conceives of narrative as a purposive communicative act. ![]()
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