One of the most significant narratives that has an impact on my life is the Holy Bible, which is essentially a book of spiritual narratives and revelations. In the Bible there are specific rules set in place for how you should live life as well as how you should treat others based on the set of stories agreed upon by holy figures. The Bible talks of how you should love thy neighbor and be honorable towards your parents or be put to death. This has a direct effect on my morals of how to communicate with people especially my parents. The narratives within the Bible are meant to bring all of the followers of Jesus together to be spiritually closer to God.
Unfortunately as much as narratives brings similar minds together it drives minds with different perspectives further apart. Difference in narratives are at the center of conflict. While the Bible bas helped to bring people of Christian faith closer to one another, it has also been at the root of some of the biggest conflicts in history such as the Crusades. The Crusades was a war on religions between the Catholic church and Muslims based empires, which is basically a war over which narratives hold the guidelines of communication out of Holy Bible and Quran. Narratives are essentially at the center of all forms of decision making and ethical ways of doing things such as communicating.
The book also states that a narrative is the ground that offers a sense of voice or articulateness to a good or a set of goods (p.38). I agree competently that the bible is a good symbol of a narrative. But to others the Quran or the Torah are the narrative that the Jewish and the Islamic communities use to interpret their own narrative. I guess it is important to remember even though "our" way of interpreting our own narrative, we need to be open to others as well as promoting and protecting our own claims.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea, essentially, narrative is based on who is the storyteller and who will be the audiences, and the way of narrative consists of one of the most significant part in communication. Talking about communication ethics and narrative, on page 27, there is a clear description about the philosophy of communication says "A philosophy of communication gives an understanding of the importance of difference in purposes and goals among fraternity, sorority, and service groups and how those goals emerge in communicative action", in other words, the philosophy of communicator depends on who is the narrator and how the story to be told.
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