Chapter 2
Theoretical framework
Article outline
- Previous research on narrative and writing development
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Narrative development
- Form and function development
- Packaging
- Development of form-function relations: assumptions and predictions
- Narrative ability and development
- The preverbal message and the event view
- Horizontal and vertical narrative axis
- Developmental path
- Genre competence and narrative structure
- Genre competence
- A narrative structure model
- Episodes, events, scenes and character activity
- Categorization of narrative patterns in a continuum
- Writing models
- Systemic functional linguistics and written language patterns
- Register theory and context
- The ideational level
- Noun phrases
- Lexical density and grammatical intricacy
- Logical relations and clauses
- The appraisal system
- Textual level
- Lexical relations
- Lexical and grammatical metaphors
- From congruent to incongruent language use
- Narrative writing and identity
- Terminology
- Conclusion
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Notes