The Indonesian film industry has experienced rapid development with the presence of various films that are not only entertaining, but also full of social values ​​and messages. The film Onde Mande! is one of the films that highlights the richness of Minangkabau culture while containing social values ​​in a light and entertaining narrative. This study aims to analyze the narrative structure and social values ​​in the film Onde Mande! using the narrative theory approach of Tzvetan Todorov and Walter Fisher. Todorov's theory is used to analyze the storyline into three stages, namely balance, disturbance, and equilibrium. Meanwhile, Fisher's theory emphasizes the importance of meaning, narrative rationality (coherence and fidelity), and moral truths believed by the audience. The results of this study indicate that the narrative structure of the film Onde Mande! follows the pattern of initial balance, disturbance, and new balance. The narrative is delivered coherently, emotionally touching, and has a moral message. This film also depicts the social values ​​of the Minangkabau people, such as mutual cooperation, responsibility, sincerity, deliberation, and devotion to family and culture. Thus, this film is not only entertainment, but also contributes to communication studies, especially in the narrative analysis of films based on Indonesian culture.

Abstract Conspiracy theories (CTs) represent a persistent challenge in evaluating major events, as they often employ fallacious forms of narrative reasoning and persuasion to posit conspiratorial agency and motives. While many CT narratives conflict with logic and reason, a minority may possess a degree of plausibility. But by what standards can plausibility of a CT be measured? This article introduces concepts from legal storytelling, rhetoric and cognitive linguistics to expand Walter Fisher’s narrative paradigm framework, enabling auditors to critically engage with the rhetorical dynamics of CT narratives. Through an analysis of official and alternative narratives surrounding the death of a Russian spy, this article demonstrates how, in a similar way to the role of jurors in criminal trials, auditors may either join the rhetor in co-creating a coherent and plausible narrative, or end up challenging the rhetor by identifying problems and thus planting the potential seeds of rival accounts.

This paper explores the narrative rationality and repeated expansion of the meta-narrative of the ‘Five Events of Da Yu’ resulted from the legend of ‘Da Yu Taming the Flood’. Guided by Fisher’s narrative paradigm, a hermeneutic analysis of the selected historical documents, archaeological discoveries, and commemorative items has found: on the one hand, coherence and fidelity have been observed abundantly with their respective criteria and standards materialized in the said meta-narrative. On the other hand, following a chronological expansion, the meta-narrative conveys the consistent themes of seeking concerted efforts in taming floods for the common good of all, while getting various tribes united and the first dynasty of China established. As a result, the analysis of the meta-narrative not only facilitates the development of an inner dialogue with ancient myths but also helps to bring together people across cultures in a universal world.

Engebretsen and Baker's conceptual paper "Health Preparedness and Narrative Rationality: A Call for Narrative Preparedness" advocates for the adoption of narrative preparedness in addition to health preparedness, emphasising the importance of engaging with people's stories and values during health emergencies. This ensures that policy-makers and health authorities gain the trust of communities as there is evidence this leads to improved outcomes. Their key argument is that science cannot be used effectively in policy unless it makes sense to people and is presented in a way that resonates with their values. This commentary draws on the wider literature and some key examples showing the wisdom of this approach. However, it also suggests that to be successful in integrating narrative preparedness in policy we need to look beyond working with health authorities and use a more transdisciplinary approach as well as addressing both the process and normative challenges in its adoption.

Barack Obama weaves a sequence of his personal story rhetorically to evoke American national ethos, with a special emphasis on American values making them an integral part of his memoirs, especially his The Audacity of Hope (2006). This paper interrogates why he narrates the story of typical American values in his political memoir in general and ascertain them in a dedicated section titled ‘Values’ in particular to explore the implicit dimensions of his storytelling. Form the theoretical parameters of Walter R Fisher’s ‘narrative paradigm’ this paper contends that, by way of recognizing (assimilating or internalizing) typical American values, Obama prepares a ground for Fisher’s ‘narrative rationality’ to identify himself with American character and American people, and thereby evokes American national ethos to assume a statesmanship.

The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact that a critical-reflexive experience of marginalized identities and forms of life—opening the path to a plural ensemble of outsider jurisprudence(s) and their particular (incommensurable) ways of storytelling — may have in our understanding of law as a specific practical-cultural way of creating and institutionalizing communitarian meanings. Should this impact be reduced to a contingent prescriptive statutory assimilation of plausible answers? Should not instead this impact be reconstituted under the possibilities of Fish’s interpretative communities, or, in alternative, as an opportunity (explored in the “thematic level” of Greimassian semiotics) to confront different “narrative typifications of action” (Jackson) and the corresponding sociolects? Doesn’t this experience of the margins impose however a more drastic reflexive challenge? I would say it does, not only as a possibility to discuss the impact of narrative rationality in law’s construction of meaning (in counterpoint with other types of rationality), but also as an opportunity to discuss law’s and legal theory’s claims to comparability, which means returning to Duncan Kennedy and to the specific gaping wounds that Feminist Jurisprudence(s), Critical Race Theory, Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies or Postcolonial Law Theory opened in Critical Legal Studies.

In Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics.Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (2022), Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker join the scholarly conversation on the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in public communication and policies (see, among others

When arrested by the authorities, celebrities always insist that they use drugs to work, just as users, just trying, because of the work environment, deliberately targeted by the police or BNN, police engineering, they are framed. Jefri Nichol was one of the celebrities who made such a statement. The purpose of the study was to assess the rationality of Jefri Nichol's drug-related narrative. The study used Walter R. Fisher's Narrative Paradigm and Barbara O'Keefe's Theory of Message-Making Logic. Methodologically, research is an interpretive paradigm with case study methods. The subject of his research was Jefri Nichol and his statements in the media as his object. The results of the study showed that Jefri Nichol's was inconsistent. Before the case, Jefri Nichol knew the negative impact of drugs on his life and career. After being caught in the narrative, drug use is just trial and error because of work. During the examination of the police, the court, and undergoing rehabilitation, Jefri Nichol produced a narrative of victimhood in which the final motive was the reduction of punishment, image, existence, and economy. Keywords: Narrative Paradigm, Celebrity, drug users

This study compares commercial television campaigns from Time Warner Cable and DirecTV.Specifically, the study describes and interprets these competing commercial campaigns from a narrative perspective and evaluates them in terms of relative coherence and fidelity.The study considers four commercials (two each from Time Warner Cable and DirecTV) in regard to their narrative rationality.The analysis describes the narrative content and execution of the commercials.Further, the analysis assesses how the commercials live up to Fisher's logic of good reasons.Finally, commercial campaigns are evaluated and compared as to their perceived success as examples of persuasive, narrative discourse.While the campaigns of both companies were somewhat compelling, the DirecTV commercials earned higher narrative scores by delivering greater narrative rationality.

In light of theoretical controversies among deliberation scholars, this study thoroughly explores the interplay of personal storytelling with rational justifications in online discussions. In a qualitative content analysis, it examines how this relationship manifests in online news user comments on the public role of religion and secularism in society from the period of August 2015 until July 2016. To provide more general interpretive insights, the study analyses highly comparable data from multiple countries. The material stems from the websites of nine daily news media in Australia, the United States, Germany and Switzerland. In the investigated online news user comments, personal storytelling regularly interplays with rational justifications in the shape of a narrative rationality and a supportive narrativity. While narrative rationality relies on personal narratives to make a point in the form of a rational justification, supportive narrativity builds on personal experiences referenced in passing to further reinforce a general line of reasoning. Personal storytelling thus plays a vital role in justifying the normative rightness of the positions that the commenters take on the contested issue. This supports normative theories that acknowledge the merit of personal storytelling for public deliberation and provides new impulses for their specification.

Courses Rhetorical Criticism, Contemporary Rhetoric, Argumentation, Persuasion, Communication Theory. Objectives Students will (1) learn the basics of the narrative rationality as a mode of judging rhetoric, and (2) observe the ways in which humans use narrative fidelity and narrative probability to judge stories.

In this article, the narrative paradigm is applied to the documented life of Tiger Woods, viewing his story as sports folklore and public moral argument, asking, what patterns exist in his narrative? What values? And how can the narrative of Tiger Woods be described in terms of narrative rationality? Looked at as a mythic hero, Tiger feathers the line between fantasy and reality and has gone through the requisite rituals of violation and reconstruction. Accordingly, the duplicity in his character revealed through scandal, and the fallibility of his superhuman image exposed through injury give him something to overcome. As long as he redeems himself each time he falls the conditions of the mythic hero are kept intact. However, implicit in his story is the notion that ends can justify means as he has overcome scandal, criticism of his training methods, and criticism of his character throughout his career.

There is evidence that use of narrative messages is effective in the context of health behavior change. There is however no explanation as to what aspect of narrative leads to high level of persuasion. We evaluated the moderating effects of character identification on the three elements of narrative message (narrative message frame, narrative rationality and narrator’s perspective) in regard to the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in the agricultural sector in Kiambu county, Kenya. A randomised experimental design was used. Narrative Message frame (gain frame vs. loss frame), narrative perspective (first vs third person), and narrative rationality, were manipulated. The messages were presented via a brief narrative video on cervical cancer and cervical screening. A uniform pretest questionnaire on cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening (T1) was completed by respondents before watching a narrative video. After watching a narrative video on cervical cancer screening, participants responded to the post test questionnaire (T2). Data from 378 (100 per cent) respondents for the pretest and 344 (91 per cent) for posttest was analysed and included in the study findings for the baseline and posttest respectively. Multiple hierarchical regression analysis was used. The study found that the majority of respondents were aged above 41 years of age at 32 per cent majority 249 (65.9 per cent) of the respondents were married, and majority 210 (55 per cent) of the respondents had 1 to 3 children followed by 4 to 5 at 91 (24 per cent). After running multiple hierarchical regression analysis, the study found that identification with story character moderated for all the independent variables. The study concluded that while using narrative messages to promote health behaviour, use of story characters which the target audience can identify with, may help in increasing adoption of advocated health behaviour.

Analyzing the rhetoric of a scientific text is based on the recognition that science communicates by employing the language. The paper intends to show that the narrative analysis which has been tried in analyzing general texts in rhetoric are appropriate and beneficial in analyzing scientific textbooks, too. Sedley Taylor’s Sound and Music which was widely used as textbook for teaching music students in the late nineteenth century is an object suitable for rhetorically analyzing how the effort to teach nonexperts the basis of science was made. The range of analyzing scientific educational texts has been extended by extensively recognizing the narrative as activities including human life and thinking process. According to the criteria of Water Fisher

Abstract Walter R. Fisher argued that human beings are homo narrans or storytelling animals who make decisions using narrative rationality, which is the ability to choose among competing stories. The question I consider is whether Fisher’s arguments have explanatory power in quick media, especially a specific type of everyday autobiography: narratives of well-known YouTube vloggers confessing intimate details or turning-point moments about their lives. Examples of videos include coming out as LGBTQ, serious illness, relationship dissolution and depression. This textual analysis looks at both sides of YouTube discourse – creator vlogs and audience comments.

En el ámbito de las ciencias sociales y humanas, la investigación se ha desarrollado bajo el paradigma lógico-científico con la separación del sujeto en sus procesos científicos. La racionalidad narrativa ha fortalecido procesos educativos en los ámbitos de la investigación, la formación, la pedagogía, y podría ofrecer aportes al mejoramiento de la educación. El artículo de revisión narrativa se orienta a los procesos de investigación-formación en el ámbito educativo mediados por la narrativa que impactan el mundo de la vida y los asuntos humanos. Los agentes narrativos involucrados en el proceso investigativo configuran y refiguran su vida en el acto de narrarse. El texto se desarrolla en tres momentos: la racionalidad narrativa en la investigación científica; su aplicación en el espectro de los fenómenos sociales, el mundo de la vida y la vida misma; y su desarrollo en procesos de investigación-formación.

Technology is not always related to hardware, but also related to its optimal use. Online news media has a number of advantages that are not owned by conventional media, such as space availability. In presenting an event in the past, news sites can technically provide alternative narratives. It is important to reveal how the online news media presents a number of important events in 1965. The focus of the study is emphasized on the aspect of narrative rationality. Using framing analysis of a number of articles in nine news sites, the study found that the arguments presented do not fully satisfy aspects of “coherence” and “fidelity”. There is still an incompatibility of substance when compared to other texts. Similarly, the alternative variations of memory presented are still more often a repetition of a number of known things. The support of media technology can not be utilized to improve the quality of the narrative presented over the past.

Illness narratives are stories that focus on, or are inspired by, the sometimes life-altering experience of illness. Most narrative constructions of these illness experiences are built upon one of three broad narrative “skeletons.” One skeletal subform, the romantic/warrior narrative, is critiqued by comedian Norm Macdonald in a humorous anecdote that mocks the expectation that cancer patients must wage an epic and heroic battle against their pernicious cancer to have a chance to survive. Macdonald explicates that such a mentality produces heroes and villains, winners and losers, and places additional burden on cancer patients. In this analysis, I argue that Macdonald’s effective use of humor and fulfillment of the five functions of health-related narration enable his story to gain narrative rationality and serve as effective rhetorical tools in encouraging the audience to accept the narrator’s critique of the romantic/warrior subform.

Este trabalho objetivou refletir e compartilhar a experiência de educação permanente com estudantes da Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde da Família da Prefeitura Municipal de Florianópolis, por meio da Bioética Narrativa. O Núcleo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Bioética e Saúde Coletiva/UFSC realizou no segundo semestre de 2016 o projeto de extensão “Bioética pelas Lentes do Cinema”, em parceria com a Secretaria de Saúde Municipal, ofertando-o para 47 profissionais residentes. Utilizou-se o cinema como recurso pedagógico para disparar a problematização da realidade e ancoragem dos argumentos de reflexão, construindo-se um espaço pedagógico de ensino-aprendizagem na aproximação do vivenciado no filme e o racionalizado em conjunto. Considerou-se que o projeto contribuiu significativamente para formação dos residentes e membros do Núcleo, especificamente, no desenvolvimento de sua capacidade crítica e reflexiva. Também permitiu evidenciar como a racionalidade narrativa auxilia a tomada de decisão frente às problemáticas éticas presentes no cotidiano do trabalho em saúde.

Based on the theory of the emotions proposed by Martha Nussbaum, the present paper proposes a theory of rationality and judicial reasonability that includes emotions as a necessary element. With this, it is possible to pass from a purely deliberative-abstract model of judicial argument to a narratively open one, in which empathy and literary imagination play a fundamental role. I will argue that emotions have a concrete manifestation in at least three relevant circumstances: the value of testimony, that of empathy, and that of literary imagination. However, the place of emotions for the project of judicial rationality is subject to institutional restrictions such as rules of law, procedures and precedents. With this in mind, a sketch of theory on the narrative rationality in judicial contexts is presented in the last section of this paper.