A Multimodal Perspective on Applied Storytelling Performances: Narrativity in Context

(a) uncover the potential narrativity of a live storytelling performance through an analysis of narrative elements constituting the story,

(b) capture the process of developing actual narrativity through a multimodal analysis of performance features in the storytelling discourse, and

(c) highlight the importance of context and dynamics between the storyteller and audience for an achievement of optimal narrativity in a particular storytelling event.

The sample analysis shows how the framework not only describes the system governing institutionalized storytelling performances in general but also serves as a useful model to examine individual performance as a unique realization of the general system. The book also offers implications for possible applications of such contextualized multimodal frameworks more broadly across the disciplines.