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Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
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Narrative inquiry refers to a subset of qualitative research designs in which stories are used to describe human action. The term narrative has been employed by qualitative researchers with a variety of meanings. In the context of narrative inquiry, narrative refers to a discourse form in which events and happenings are configured into a temporal unity by means of a plot. Bruner (1985) designates two types of cognition: paradigmatic, which operates by recognizing elements as members of a category; and narrative, which operates by combining elements into an emplotted story. Narrative inquiries divide into two distinct groups based on Bruner's types of cognition. Paradigmatic‐type narrative inquiry gathers stories for its data and uses paradigmatic analytic procedures to produce taxonomies and categories out of the common elements across the database. Narrative‐type narrative inquiry gathers events and happenings as its data and uses narrative analytic procedures to produce explanatory stories.
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- Authors
- Polkinghorne, D. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Polkinghorne, Donald E.
- Venue
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1995-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-23
- ISSN
- 0951-8398 (ISSN-L)
- 1366-5898
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- W2106478370
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- 49.34
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- journal article
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- en
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- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative research in health
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
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- Keywords
- narrative inquiry, narrative configuration, narrative cognition, Bruner, qualitative analysis, narrative analysis, paradigmatic analysis
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