Narrative navigation: narrative practices in forensic discourse

Heffer, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0922-5807 2012. Narrative navigation: narrative practices in forensic discourse. Narrative Inquiry 22 (2) , pp. 267-286. 10.1075/ni.22.2.04hef

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Abstract

Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the functional embedding of narrative within sociocultural practices (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008) and to the role narrative plays in the construction of identity (Bamberg, 2011). Narrative practices, though, are still equated with narrating activities, with “a form of action, of performance“ (Blommaert, 2006) at a given moment in discursive time. This article argues that when narrative is embedded in particularly complex sociocultural practices such as the adversarial trial, it is not sufficient to consider activities of narrating and their immediate discursive environment. For while participants orient to narrative in a context such as the trial, the infrequency of identifiable narrative discourse can give the analytical impression that narrative is peripheral to the overall practice. The model of Narrative Navigation outlined here is the first systematic attempt to make salient the fundamentally dynamic, multifaceted and rhetorical nature of narrative in adversarial jury trial. The model should provide a more holistic picture of narrativity in such contexts and should enhance language-based discourse analytic approaches to narrative.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	forensic narration; identity navigation; narrative practice; narrativity; rhetorical narrative; trial discourse
Publisher:	John Benjamins Publishing
ISSN:	1387-6740
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49534

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