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Introduction
2010:9).Astoryiscomparedtoavehicleasitprovidesastimulusfor
learningornoticingparticularthings(Garvie1990:67).Storyisalso
describedasatheme,becauseitallowsonetoorganiseunrelatedevents
intoasequenceorachain(Garvie1990:67).Consequently,narrative
competenceandnarrativeintelligenceseemasimportantascommuni-
cativecompetenceandcognitiveintelligence,respectively.
Theempiricalpartofthisbookanalysesnarrativescollectedfrom
PolishandTurkishstudentsofEnglish.Themainobjectiveofthere-
searchistoexaminecross-culturaldiferencesandsimilaritiesthatafect
theperceptionandnarrationofinterculturalencounters.Theresearch
projectinvolvesseveralstages,includingbrainstormingandgroupdis-
cussion,thetrainingproperaswellastheproductionofnarratives.For
betterunderstandingoftheresearcharea,itisessentialtomakeadis-
tinctionbetweenthefollowingconcepts:story,narrative,andnarration.
AccordingtoGarvie(1990:67),thestoryistherawmaterial,thetheme
oftheevent.Puttingastructuretoitandarrangingitsequentiallymeans
producinganarrative,whereastheprocessoftellingisthenarration.As
Garvie(1990:67)furtherexplains,thestorycarriesthepotential,the
narrativeisthe“cognitiveresource”ameaningmakingstrategy,and
thenarrationisthesharingofitorallyorinliterature.Inthisbook,the
authorintendstofocusmostlyonthemeaningsimpliedbythenar-
rativesproducedbytheresearchsubjects.Consequently,acloserlook
wouldbegiventothetopicalanalysisofthosenarratives.Anotheras-
pectoftheresearchconcernstheexaminationofmechanismsregulat-
ingtheveryprocessofnarrativeprocessingandproduction.However,
theterms:storyandnarrativemayoccasionallybeusedinterchangeably
soastoavoidtheover-repetitionofthewordnarrative.
Datawascollectedbymeansofquestionnaires,includingscales;
trainer’sobservationandrecords,andthestudents’narratives.Qualita-
tiveanalysis(focusingontopicalcategoriesinthenarratives)andquan-
titativeanalysis(basedonLIWCprogrammeandthecalculationofthe
Pearsoncorrelationcoefcient)helpedtoevaluateresearchobjectives
andformulatefinalconclusions.
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