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- ↑ Cf. Albrecht Lehmann, 'Homo narrans: Individuelle und kollektive Dimensionen des Erzählens', in Erzählkultur: Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Erzählforschung: Hans-Jörg Uther zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. by Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 59-70 (p. 59) ISBN 9783110214710.
- ↑ Rhodes, C. and Brown, A. D. (2005) Narrative, organizations and research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 7 (3). pp. 167-188. doi : 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2005.00112.x.
- ↑ Jenny Mandelbaum, 'Interpersonal Activities in Conversational Storytelling', Western Journal of Speech Communication, 53.2 (1989, 114-26 doi : 10.1080/10570318909374295.
- ↑ Walter R. Fisher, 'Narration as a Human Communication paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument', Communication Monographs, 51 (1984), 1-20 (p. 6) doi : 10.1080/03637758409390180 repr. Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader, ed. by John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, and Sally Caudill (New York: The Guilford Press, 1999) pp. 265-87 (p. 270).
- ↑ Cf. Walter R. Fisher, 'The Narrative Paradigm: In the Beginning', Journal of Communication, 35(4), 74–89 (1985), 74-89 doi : 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1985.tb02974.x.
- ↑ Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen 2002.
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