Punctum – Narrativity & Multimodal Communication in the Age of New Media

Guest Editor: Nicolae-Sorin Drăgan. Human beings have developed the instinct of narrativity as one of the fundamental solutions to the problem of transmitting thoughts and experiences from one mind to another (Greimas & Courtes [1979] 1982; MacIntyre 1981; Fisher 1987; Bruner1991; Haidt 2012). It seems that our minds are resonating when we build and share meanings with the otherness in narrative forms (Stephens, Silbert, & Hasson 2010). Thus, we are emotionally and cognitively motivated to engage in cooperative behaviors (Zak, 2012). Through narratives, we can restore to otherness both the un-predictability of the real, with the paradoxes and the spectacle of ordinary life, but also its possibility, the prolongation of the real in possible worlds.

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