Narrative

Roles: story, character, plot, chapter, turning-point, climax, narrator, audience, setting, theme

The structure of stories: beginnings, middles, and ends; characters with motivations; plots with rising action, climax, and resolution; chapters that segment experience into meaningful units. As a source domain, narrative provides the cognitive scaffolding for understanding any temporally extended sequence as having coherence, direction, and meaning. Turner argues in The Literary Mind (1996) that narrative is not merely a literary form but a fundamental cognitive operation — “story” is how humans make sense of sequences of events.

As Source Frame (7)

• Breadcrumb Trail → software-programs
• Double Listening → psychotherapy
• Externalizing the Problem → psychotherapy
• Life Is a Story → life-course
• Re-authoring → psychotherapy
• The Absent but Implicit → psychotherapy
• Unique Outcomes → psychotherapy

Applied To This Frame (2)

• comedy-craft → Callback
• comedy-craft → Lampshading