My Best Friend's Brother's Cousin Knew This Guy Who … : Hoaxes, Legends, Warnings, and Fisher's Narrative Paradigm

2013/02/26 by Melissa Hobart · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Narrative Theory and Analysis #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies #Brother #Hoax #Narrative #Cousin #Psychology #Sociology #Media studies #Literature #Law #Art #Political science

paper · doi:10.1080/17404622.2013.770155

openalex publication_date 2013/02/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Courses: Communication Theory, Persuasion, Argument Objective: Students will identify the parts of Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm and analyze the narrative rationality of urban legends.

Citations

• Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument

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• Narrative paradigm [wikipedia]

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