Psychology of Language: The Construction of Narrative Text

The Construction of Narrative Text

1. Psychology of Language:
Construction of the Narrative
Text
Presenter: Eiram Amjed Khudhr

2. Content:
•TheEmergenceofwriting
system
•NarrativeWriting
•CognitiveModelsofWriting
•Hypertextandtheconnection
betweenwriterandreader

3. •According to Forrester (1996),
it’s not easy to thinkof a word
without knowing the written
formof that word.
•Those who only know the spoken
form of a word have different
interpretation as compared to
someone who is literate.

4. Plato
The Emergence of writing system as compared to speaking.

5. Russian developmental
psychologist Vygotsky (1962)
had criticizedthe nature of written language as:abstract,
having no intonation,
no musical devices,
no expressiveness,
and no phonation.

6. •Other linguists:
writing represents
the cognitive
process of
ordering thought
and ideas and
representing them
as a text.

7. Narrative Text

8. Cognitive models of Writing
•Hayes and Flowers (1980, 1989) presented three stages
for the process of writing:
•Planning is the first stage where the writer sets
a goal, develop ideas, and knowledge is recalled
from the long-term memory in order to create a
plan. Any overlap?
•Then the stage of transition comes along where
the writer produces the language through using the
representations in her/his memory.
•Lastly, in the stage of reviewing the writer scans
through what has been produced to find errors to
be edited.

9. Narrative and writing
•Narrative is all the devices, strategies, and conventions used
in writing to organize the order of a series of events in a
fictional and non-fictional story.
•The subdivision of narrative is consisted of two branches:
•A. Abstract narratology focused on the structure of the
language of folk-tales like the works of Propp (1968), it was
connected in some aspects with transformational grammarians.
•B. Textual narratology was focused on the discourse of
narration.

10. Hypertext and the connection between writer and reader
•Flowers describe as ‘Blissful ignorance’ and Doland
express as ‘hypertext involves both power and danger’.
•Writers have different internal factors for writing a
text, the reader might interpret and reproduce the
original text according to their own level of
comprehension.
•In this perspective the meaning of the original text
will not be communicated thoroughly. Yet, readers will
enhance their comprehension and production skills in
the process.

11. •Furthermore,writersthroughusinghypertext
mediaplatformscangainauthorshipasthey
producetheiroriginaltext,inasimilarmanner
readerscangainre-authorshipbyinterpreting
andreflectingupontheoriginalworkofthe
writer.