ABSTRACT
Narrative structure has room for a large variety of acts of narrating apart from reporting, describing, or remembering. People find acts of teaching, reprimanding, exhorting, ridiculing, explaining, projecting, comparing, prophesying, or abstracting. At the same time, such acts are always the codified expression of specific directional activities of consciousness; they are not merely acts of explaining or abstracting, but always acts of explaining something, prophesying something, or ridiculing something. Intentionality in narrative always also includes an implied (and/or stated) reader who is constructed in the reading process by the actual reader in combination with his grasp of presentational process and presented world. The structural opposition of the implied reader who in the course of the story acquires or surpasses the narrator's insights and the actual reader who may or may not be able to follow suit can be recognized also in jokes and satires.
