ABSTRACT
The phrase narrative discourse juxtaposes two of themost varied and ill-defined terms in contemporary research on language. Definitions of both terms vary depending on research paradigm, disciplinary perspective, methodological tradition applied, purpose of the research, and the corpus of data available. Nonetheless, the study of narrative discourse has found a prominent place in the fields of history, literary studies, psychology, cognitive science, sociolinguistics, sociolinguistic ethnography, ethnomethodology, systemic linguistics, sociology, anthropology, folklore, education, medicine, and other professional domains (Lieblich et al., 1998).
