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PALA Narrative SIG

The Narrative WIKI is available at http://narrativeworkshopwiki.pbwiki.com/.

At the PALA conference in Huddersfield 2005, it was decided to establish a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Narrative Studies.

The purpose of the PALA Narrative SIG is:

  1. To raise awareness of and disseminate research in the field of narrative studies (specifically within PALA, but with links to other projects and groups too)
  2. To provide a forum in which researchers might exchange information and support, with a long term possibility of developing corporate research projects in the broad field of narrative studies.

Narrative and Multimodality Symposium

The PALA Narrative SIG held its inaugural symposium in Birmingham, April 27-28, 2007.

Structuralist narratology claimed to transcend concerns with media. Alongside this, stylistically-oriented narrative analysis has traditionally privileged spoken and written modes of narrative. Granted, multimodality, or the reliance on more than one semiotic channel for conveying communicative content, is inherent in the face-to-face narrative communication in everyday interaction, where people draw on a range of visual, verbal, paralinguistic, and other cues to make sense of each other. However, the rapid development and increasing use of new media technologies suggest the need to revisit the relations between multimodality and narrative. The purpose of this symposium was to foster further work on multimodality and its impact on narrative production and processing in a variety of storytelling contexts.

The symposium included a workshop on teaching narrative using new media. The workshop wiki demonstrates the range of innovative texts and ideas that emerged during the discussions and remains open for anyone interested in narrative, digital texts and teaching to use. Viewing the wiki is self explanatory, but editing the pages requires a password, available from Ruth Page. The wiki can be found at http://narrativeworkshopwiki.pbwiki.com/.

For more information, visit http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/english/?page=narrative-and-multimodality.

Mailing List

There is a PALA-narrative mailing list for anyone interested. Please go to http://www.list.hum.aau.dk/mailman/listinfo/pala-narrative to join.

For comments, ideas or suggestions please use the mailing list.

There is a directory of members of the group, listing their relevant areas of interest. You can view this online as HTML or download a Word version.

Ruth Page (Ruth.Page at uce.ac.uk)