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“I begin with a series of working definitions… They are meant not to hold the truth of their object but rathe rto make it accessible and discussable.” p. 3

“Narratology as a field of study is the ensemble of theories of narratives, narrative texts, images, spectacles, events — of cultural artefacts that tell a story.” p. 3

“a text is a finite, structured whole, composed of signs.” p. 5

“we organize our experience and our memory of human happenings mainly in the form of narrative — stories, excuses, myths, reasons for doing and not doing, and so on.” p. 4

“Narrative: taken to be synonymous with story, and therefore not used in its noun form in the book” p. 161

“Narrative Literacy: understanding how stories function and their effects at individual and collective levels.” p. 162

“Story: a causal account of something happening that includes entities with agency, can be distributed or shared, and in which both form and content generate affect and cognition. Stories can be textual or non-textual.” p. 163

“Storylistening: the theory and practice of gathering narrative evidence to inform decision-making, especially in relation to public reasoning, as part of a pluralistic evidence base.” p. 163

“A narrative is a representation of a possible world in a linguistic and/or visual medium, at whose centre there are one or several protagonists of an anthropomorphic nature who are existentially anchored in a temporal and spatial sense and who (mostly) perform goal-directed actions (action and plot structure).” p. 6

“One will define narrative without difficulty as the representation of an event or sequence of events, real or fictitious, by means of language and, more particularly, by means of written language.” p. 127

“Story: The chronological series of actions and events deemed to precede emplotment that can be retrospectively reconstructed from the emplotted narrative; broadly equivalent to Aristotle’s logos, the Russian formalists’ fabula, and the structuralists’ histoire.” p. 256

“First, narrative ethics is in itself an interdisciplinary area of research, most commonly understood either as a subfield of narrative studies or as a particular approach to ethics.” p. 26

“Accordingly, we define applied narratology as the theoretical and empirical investigation of realworld practices in which narrative is a central issue.” p. 234

“We define applied narratology as the transfer of insights and findings of the academic study of narrative to storytelling practices.” p. 142

“Narrative, indeed universal and infinitely varied, may be defined as the representation of real or fictive events or situations in a time sequence.” p. 1

“Narratology is the study of the form and functioning of narrative.” p. 4

“The representation (as product and process, object and act, structure and structuration) of one or more real or fictive events communicated by one, two, or several (more or less overt) narrators to one, two, or several (more or less overt) narratees.” p. 58

“Few words have enjoyed so much use and suffered so much abuse as narrative and its partial synonym, story.” p. 22

“Spatial dimension
(1) Narrative must be about a world populate by individuated existents.

Temporal dimension
(2) This world must be situated in time and undergo significant transformations.
(3) The transformations must be caused by non-habitual physical events.

Mental dimension
(4) Some of the participants in the events must be intelligent agents who have a mental life and react emotionally to the states of the world.
(5) Some of the events must be purposeful actions by these agents.

Formal and pragmatic dimension
(6) The sequence of events must form a unified causal chain and lead to closure.
(7) The occurrence of at least some of the events must be asserted as fact for the storyworld.
(8) The story must communicate something meaningful to the audience.” p. 29

“‘Content marketing’ is a general term used to refer to the marketing communications tactic of sharing useful and valuable content — texts, films, audio — for the purpose of promoting a particular organization, product or individual to a specific audience.” p. 36