The constitutive function of narratives includes not just naming the problem, but also scripting the identities and roles of the various actors involved in it.
At the turn of the 21st century, research into the textual functions of narratives increasingly subjected these genres to types of analysis that had traditionally been reserved for literary works.
For some participants, the use of narrative evidence appeared to function as a heuristic a mental shortcut that obviated the need to rely on statistical evidence.
It's also a function of crafting narratives so that what's important is on screen.
The scrambling and internal editing of memory becomes a primordial force essentially the show's villain (besides Jessica Biel)—as the show ties erosion of remembered lives into the form and function of sitcom narratives and cartoon imaginings.
The academic authorities do too, having served the dual functions of providing narrative exposition and demonstrating the high-minded uselessness of official liberal discourse.
Narrative analysis has also highlighted the potential use of narratives for educational purposes.
An unusual number of their ghosts are women who left this world too soon, unsatisfied and uncelebrated, and, as you watch "Ugetsu" or "Kwaidan" (or read Hearn's evocative tales), you might begin to suspect that the function of the ghost narrative in Japanese culture is precisely to honor the suffering of generations of the country's women.
It is through this mechanism that worlds are conjured up, through everyday details, which function "as the opposite of narrative".
"If you put a story on Sarah Palin at the way, way, way bottom of the page and a piece on the ABA in a screaming header on top, the Palin story would get more page views".This is, I think, partly a function of two contrasting narratives partisans have about each other.
