Introduction: Continuities, Shifts, and Narrative Temporalities

This paper explores the construal of temporality in personal narratives written in English, Spanish, and Hebrew, three languages that differ in their morphological marking of tense-aspect. Participants were native speakers of each language in four different age groups from middle childhood across adolescence into adulthood, so taking into account developmental facets of narrative temporality in each language. Focus is on distribution of situations on and off the timeline of the story from the point of view of the linguistic configurations employed by narrators to express the temporal domains of tense and aspect in the three languages at both the intra-clausal and inter-clausal levels. Hebrew was found to differ from Spanish and English, both of which have more enriched system of grammaticized aspect, in the distribution of situations on and off the timeline both developmentally across age groups and in the linguistic means conflated in expression of temporality. The more impoverished system of grammatical aspect in Hebrew led narrators writing in Hebrew to prefer a more linear temporal organization than their counterparts in Spanish and English. The study distinguishes between shared versus language-particular patterns of narrative-embedded temporality from the point of view of linguistic forms and their temporal functions in the context of extended discourse. Results of the study shed light on the interrelations between local linguistic means and the discourse-embedded expression of temporality in narrative development.

The article examines the temporality of narrative in the discourse of contemporary travel literature in the context of socio-cultural dynamics associated with the digitalization of life forms, socio-cultural interactions and new models of comprehension, description and representations of reality in literary texts. The emergence of a new picture of the world in the transformations of literary discourse and narrative is problematized. The phenomenon of travel prose by the Dutch writer С. Nooteboom is considered from the perspective of representing the problems of transformation of the temporality of narrative in the contemporary meta-genre of travel literature. The aim of the article is to determine the directions of transformation of the temporality of the narrative in the discourse of modern travel literature in the context of the transformation of life forms of human world and the genre specificity of this meta-genre. The task of the study is to clarify the content of the ontologizing functional of travel literature and its humanistic potential, which is revealed in the existential, axiological, identity and transcendental aspects of the temporal narrative. The research methodology is comprehensive and interdisciplinary. To achieve this goal, historical- literary, historical-philosophical, hermeneutic, narratological, phenomenological, comparative, and narrative methods were used. Research results. In connection with the transformations of the horizon of meanings of modern man (homo digitalis) and the development of the meta-genre of travel literature, we must emphasize the relevance of the worldview influences of literature as an individual and social practice, a segment of social communication and culture on the formation of the identity of modern man and communities. Perhaps, in this context, we can talk about the ontologizing function of travel literature, which, by recording existentials of being here-here in the subjective time of meaning generation, symbolically returns to man the objective space lost by him, expanding the world depicted by new modes of operating with information. The time, the temporality of the narrative of travel literature determines the space of human self-awareness, which also means the problematization of the logical structure of the statement and paradoxically makes the eventfulness of travel not a predicative function of the subject, but an autonomous entity. In the case of travel literature, the temporality of the narrative algorithmizes and structures the reception of reality, which is relevant even for such linguistic constructions that do not directly have markers of temporality, and the ability of such a narrative to configure and reconfigure formats of understanding and meanings of a work of art is emphasized both at the formal and at the content levels. The humanistic potential of travel literature is revealed in the existential, axiological, identity and transcendental aspects of the temporal narrative. The temporal narrative in travel literature is essentially correlated with the principle of intertextuality, fixing modes of interaction, peculiar trigger zones between texts, narratives, discursive and speech practices. The temporal narrative involves the practice of commemoration between the subjects of the texts, including the reader. The temporality of modern travel literature seems to be organized according to the principle of nonlinear discreteness, when the plot unfolding in time and the change of the characters’ localization points necessarily implies a sequence of events that is differentiated by the spheres of somatic presence, reception of empirical reality, and imaginary construction of this reality. The temporality of the narrative of modern travel literature also implies an increased role of the imagological aspect, that is, visualization based on images or descriptions, which reflects the emergence of virtual subgenres of the meta-genre. Also relevant for the modern temporal narrative of travel literature are the oppositions syncretic/ discrete and temporality as a phenomenological marker of human perception and experience of reality and spatiality as a medium of interaction with the Other and Others. The work of С. Nooteboom represents the total optics of travel as a mode of human existence, indissolubly linked to transcendental inquiry and meaning generation, as well as the discovery of identity at all levels – from cultural to gender. Regarding the work of С. Nooteboom, two main approaches can be distinguished, which we can designate as spatial-semiotic and existential-phenomenological. One of them emphasizes the detachment of the Nooteboom traveler as a sign of the meaninglessness and timelessness of travel as a simple change of geographical coordinates, the other interprets travel not as an escape from oneself, but as a search for oneself. The temporal narrative in the writer’s texts can be characterized as extra-historic and transcendent, as well as one that uses the tools of ritual and play. The ontologism of the temporality of narrative in the works of С. Nooteboom is represented in the deployment of simultaneous practices of narrative construction, the use of inversive game techniques and methods inherent in modern and postmodernism. In the later works, there is an influence of the aesthetics of metamodernism, in particular the principle of meta-axis.

This article studies the post-revolutionary social situation in Iran as a peripheral country, through the novels written and awarded in this historical moment. The narrative temporality and its rapport with the subjectivity that is constructed by and at the same time constructing a novel, is a pivotal formal characteristic, through which this essay engages with the analysis of Iran's post-revolutionary society after 1979 uprising. The discussion is concentrated on the awarded persian novels in three mainstream festivals, in the years between 2001 to 2011. This decade is specifically significant since post-revolutionary literary relations and institutions are established and gained power during this period. This research discusses three recurrent narrative temporalities centered around an "eternal past," which, as the essay argues, is a fundamental element in the specific actualization of post-modern subjectivity in the periphery. This specific actualization is different, but not isolated, from the case in the core countries. However, these two different actualizations of postmodern subjectivity are dialectically intertwined as the contrasting symptoms of a single phenomenon. In Iran's particular historical case, this actualization is synchronic with the construction of a post-revolutionary subjectivity that has to confront the defeat of the anti-systematic revolution, due to the structural limitations of state power in a peripheral country within the capitalist socio-economic relations. Reflecting upon this historical moment via the lens of narrative temporalities in the corpus of this research has made it possible to depict the complexities of Iran’s post-revolutionary society from an innovative perspective.

이 연구는 TV 드라마 <시그널>의 주요 모티브인 과거, 현재, 미래가 상호작용하는 서사적 시간 구성이 극적 긴장을 조성하는 데 어떤 역할을 했는지를 분석한다. 분석을 위한 이론적, 방법론적 도구로 페터 퓌츠(Peter P&#252;tz, 1977)가 제시한 서사물에서의 극적 긴장 조성 기법들을 활용한다. 그리고 서사적 시간성에 대한 오랜 이론적 토대를 제공해온 쥬네트와 채트먼의 논의를 퓌츠와 비교한다. 이 글의 목적은 TV 드라마 <시그널>의 서사형식을 밝히는 것이다. 특히 서사적 시간성을 뒤흔들어서 극적 긴장감을 불러일으키는 서사적 변형을 살펴보는 것이다. 이는 <시그널>의 시간성과 시간을 통한 극적 긴장의 조성 기법이 <시그널>의 극적 완성도를 높이기 위해서 어떻게 활용됐는가를 분석하는 것이다. 이를 통해서 서사적 시간성 문제에 대한 이론적 지평을 확장하는 것이 이 연구의 궁극적 목표라고 할 수 있다. 페터 퓌츠가 제시한 극적 긴장을 조성하는 기법들인 서사적 시간 구성의 다양한 요소들이 <시그널>의 전편에서 복합적으로 활용되고 있었다. ‘연속’과 ‘선취’, ‘역전’이라는 긴장 조성의 기법들은 <시그널>의 과거와 현재 혹은 현재와 미래라는 이중적 서사 속에 자연스럽게 녹아들고 있었다. 이러한 극적 긴장 조성의 기법들은 <시그널>의 모티브인 무전기를 통해서 과거와 현재가 만난다는 서사적 설정에 매우 적합한 재현도구로 쓰였다. <시그널>은 극적 긴장을 조성하는 기법들을 통해서 서사와 시간을 복합적이면서도 체계적으로 구조화하는 데 성공했다. 즉 <시그널>의 대중적 성공과 높은 작품성은 서사적 시간의 구조화와 그에 따른 극적 긴장의 성공적 조성에서 기인한다고 하겠다. 아울러 주요 캐릭터역시 그러한 시간적 구조화에서 극적 긴장 조성의 기법적 역할을 수행했다. 이는 캐릭터 연구에 있어서도 중요한 관심의 대상이 될 수 있을 것으로 보인다. 끝으로 최근 늘고 있는 독특한 시간성 혹은 멀티타임의 시간성을 모티브로 하여 제작되는 영화나 TV 드라마에 대한 연구와 분석에 있어서 극적 긴장을 조성하기 위한 방법을 제안한 퓌츠의 논의는 더욱 더 유용할 것으로 판단된다.This study analyzed how the narrative time or narrative temporality influenced on the construction of dramatic tension in TV drama <Signal>. The narrative theories of Peter P&#252;tz Gerald Genette, and Seymour Chatman are used as text analysis tools. The purpose of this article is to analyze the narrative form and narrative transmission of <Signal> which constructs the dramatic tension. Furthermore, this study tries to explore the usefulness of the work of Peter P&#252;tz cataloging the technique and manner by which the time element interacts to become the major means of producing the inner tension that is the core of dramatic style. This study suggests that the narrative temporality functions very elaboratively to construct the dramatic tension in the <Signal> which is motivated by supernatural situation connecting the past and the present. It also suggests that the narrative theory and methodology of Peter P&#252;tz could be useful to analyze the narrative temporality.

In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the ‘sacred’ in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for ‘re-enchantment’ have not completely disappeared. Through an analysis of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Cage, 'the author shows that the twentieth century composer often adopted an artistic personality akin to Max Weber’s religious types of the prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity advances a cultural sociology of modernity and shows that twentieth century musical culture often involved the adoption of ‘apocalyptic’ temporal narratives, a commitment to ‘musical revolution’, a desire to explore the limits of noise and sound, and, finally, redemption through the rediscovery of tonality. This book is essential reading for those interested in cultural sociology, sociological theory, music history, and modernity/modernism studies.

Global crowdsourcing teams who conduct humanitarian response use temporal narratives as a sensemaking device when time is a critical element of the data story. In dynamic situations in which the flow of online information is rapid, fluid, and disordered, the process of how distributed teams construct a temporal narrative is not well understood nor well supported by information and communication technologies (ICTs). Here, we examine an intense need for temporal sensemaking: time- and safety-critical information work during the 2017 Hurricane Maria crisis response in Puerto Rico. Our analysis of semi-structured interviews reveals how members of a global digital humanitarian group, The Standby Task Force (SBTF), use a process of triage, evaluation, negotiation, and synchronization to construct collective temporal narratives in their high-tempo, distributed information work. Informed by these empirical insights, we reflect on the design implications for cloud-based, collaborative ICTs used in time- and safety-critical remote work.

In this exploratory study we utilise theorization about time through ‘rhetorical history’ narratives to examine organisational uses of the past and how pension fund trustees manage the tension between short- and long-term investment strategies. We identify and elaborate on distinctive temporal narratives of systemic, organizational and trusteeship role legacies that appear to contribute to organizational inertia and myopic investment, which seems to exacerbate investment short-termism even further. Theoretically, our study offers an alternative perspective to the established view of ‘rhetorical history’ as a positive force on strategic decision-making. We argue that there is a need to understand better how uses of the past affect strategic management within organizations, focusing on the negative as well as the positive. Practically, although rhetorical history is seen as a tool that managers can use to mobilize the resources necessary to motivate change, we demonstrate how this tool can also provide a comfort to those who resist change, reinforcing entrenched behaviour and acting as a constraint on progress. In the context of the ongoing policy attempts to change and improve the culture and conduct within financial services in the UK and globally, policy makers need to instil in trustees and in the wider investment community the desire to change dominant narratives as a means of fashioning a more sustainable future.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to capture legitimising principles of recent successions to the throne through narrative time. Further, this study considers leaders’ sense-giving to succession.Design/methodology/approachThis research applies a “temporal narrative analysis” to explicate legitimising principles of narrative time in three recent case studies of royal succession: the kingdoms of Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.FindingsThe findings show that royal successions in three modern European constitutional monarchies are legitimised through giving sense to narrative time. The legitimacy of timing succession is embedded in multiple temporal narratives, in which heirs apparent are brought forward as the new generation who will modernise the monarchy.Originality/valueThe paper presents an innovative conceptual framework of sense-giving to succession through narrative time. This framework will be helpful to scholars who aim to grasp legitimising principles of temporal narration in leadership succession.

Our aim is to stimulate critical reflection on an issue that has received relatively little attention: how alternative presuppositions about time can lead to different narrative ways of researching and theorizing organizational life. Based on two amendments to Paul Ricoeur’s work in Time and Narrative, we re-story narrative research in organizations as Narrative Temporality (NT). Our amendments draw upon the temporality perspective of Jean-Paul Sartre in order to reframe narrative research in organizations as a fluid, dynamic, yet rigorous process open to the interpretations (negotiated) of its many participants (polyphonic) and situated in the context and point of enactment (synchronic). We believe an approach to narrative organizational research grounded in NT can open up new ways of thinking about experience and sense-making, and help us take reflexive responsibility for our research.

This chapter compares J.T. Fraser's modelling of nature from twentieth-century physics with M.A.K. Halliday's modelling of language in the theory of systemic functional linguistics. It demonstrates that traces of the natural human environment in which language originated can be identified in the meaning choices of language for talking about experience. Narrative studies have assumed that narrative is the human means of organizing our understanding of time, so it follows the one narrative text that can tell stories of different worlds with their different temporalities and, by extension, even those of modern science beyond the worlds in which language evolved. Each type of story makes temporal sense according to its own mode of coherence. The chapter illustrates historical changes in the prominence of one world or another with examples from Old English to the so-called postmodern novel. Keywords:J.T. Fraser; language; M.A.K. Halliday; narrative temporalities; Old English; postmodernism

How does narrative temporality affect the understanding of Johannine symbolism? To investigate this is the purpose of this article. The notion of narrative temporality is not new in the study of Biblical texts. However, there have not been many studies which make this notion their main thrust. Rather, generally speaking, it has merely been used as a "guide" or framework by which one can investigate some other important aspects such as the interpretation of a certain piece of literature, narrative, or part of a narrative. Against this background, this article wishes to put more focus on the possibility and impact this notion can provide in Biblical studies. In order to do this, this article takes up the subject of Johannine symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, especially the symbol of light, simply because it is not easy to understand. The more difficult the subject is, the clearer this notion can display its impact and usability in the readings of Biblical narratives. Keywords: Gospel according John, Johannesevangelie, John 9, Johnannes 9, Symbolism, Simboliek, Narrative temporality, Tydhantering in narratiewe, Light darkness, Lig duisternis Acta Theologica Vol.22(2) 2003: 117-135

Proposing narrative readings of Bushman rock painting in terms of historical timeframes and narrative temporalities, this investigation of the consequences of musealisation at the Tandjesberg rock art site examines certain discursive functions of museum metaphors as emplotment schemes in historiography. In particular, the quasi-neutral use of the “panel” category for defining rock paintings in archaeology is critiqued. The final additions to the Tandjesberg rock paintings and possible connections with the politics of millennarian resistance receive special attention. Though the approach is essentially that of the history of art, it would seem that archaeology is subject to related ideologically charged discourses.

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has carved a distinctive niche in the realm of science fiction cinema with his unique spatial design aesthetics. This paper examines his directorial works including Dune, Blade Runner 2049, and Arrival, exploring how he intricately reveals complex relationships among human emotions, societal structures, and future technologies through natural landscapes, architectural styles, and narrative temporality. Natural landscapes serve not merely as backgrounds but as profound mediators of emotional dialogue with characters. Architectural styles not only align with world-building but also embody technological practicality and functionality. Narrative temporality, employing non-linear structures, deepens inner struggles of characters and exploration of destiny. Villeneuve’s films dazzle not only visually but also provoke profound contemplation on human existence and cosmic significance.

Time’s Deadly Arrow: Time and Temporality in Narratives of Immaterial Labor

This article proposes rethinking communication, development, and social change from a decolonial perspective through the case study of the Ticoya resguardo. It examines how the oral traditions of Indigenous elders construct a history of the territory, positioning orality as a practice of communicative and cognitive justice that transcends the dominant structures of the nation-state. Border tensions are explored both as a physical reality between Colombia and Peru and as a metaphor for identity conflicts. The theoretical framework incorporates debates on post-development, pluriverse, and southern epistemologies, challenging social inequalities. A qualitative methodology based on the praxeological method was implemented in four stages in collaboration with the resguardo’s communications committee. Producing a radio series narrated by participants was crucial for gathering the elders’ narratives through conversations, social mapping, and storytelling. The findings emphasize the break with linear temporality in narratives, the sense of territory beyond state borders, and the identity tensions of river dwellers. The conclusion underscores the necessity of a decolonial perspective, recognizing the impact of monocultures in obscuring diverse forms of life. The Ticoya resguardo case illustrates how communicative justice can highlight the local and everyday, considering the territory essential in the pluriverse, aligning with Escobar’s and Santos’ proposals on transitions toward a pluriversal world.