narrative form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeandform
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Narrativeformintegrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
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At the same time, thenarrativeformis constructive of the past, creatively presenting selected aspects of that past to elicit its meaning.
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Thus, retold stories are a valuable source for examining acceptable ways of representing the self and others innarrativeform.
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At the close of the seventeenth century,narrativeformunderwent a transformation, which has been the subject of a number of recent studies.
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Actants of mixed blood in this instance, produce a hybridized and indeterminatenarrativeform.
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In addition to these representative functions, novels enact anarrativeformof disciplinary technology.
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Thenarrativeformprovides a cultural and political context that makes it possible to understand the dilemmas and preoccupations that found expression in their thought.
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Such genres are heavily oriented to the first person present, anarrativeformassociated with subjective experience and inner feelings.
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The rhetorical success of such acts of stereotype production itself depends on several features ofnarrativeformand content.
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There were only reports innarrativeformabout single eradication efforts, sometimes with a simple diagram showing a particular location.
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The unusual and engagingnarrativeform, on the other hand, has attracted notice if not explanation.
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It is suggested that the events are shaped intonarrativeformbecause they are frequently mentally rehearsed.
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These widely recited stories describe the accession to and fall from power in vividnarrativeform.
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In the latter case, since the trauma was originally encoded into memory in anarrativeform, the memory can be recovered at a later date.
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The children often 'dramatise' the sounds they hear, giving them anarrativeformor an expressive representation.
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The piece responds to this request both in its constructed text narrative and in its approach to musicalnarrativeform.
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Thenarrativeformreflects a concern with the types of art and creative subjectivity that will be possible under socialism.
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A tableau is anarrativeform: animals are frozen in action to suggest both the scene's immediate past and what will immediately follow.
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