ABSTRACT
Narrative is used broadly to refer to speech acts that, by encompassing specific frames and references, serve as a cognitive framework to assess action and events. Societies and groups have their formative myths and legends, which they can shape to inform a reliable foundation and are used as fits their purpose, and have been known to construct their stories out of whole cloth. “History is the Muslim community on the march”. Narrative is also a function of agency. Actors have their own narratives, which may or may not reflect the meta-sense of society and may be tailored to fit the event, taking the future out of the hands of the past. Narratives are refracted by the perspective of observers and participants, whose actions then contribute to the evolving formulation of narrative.
