ABSTRACT
Narrative is understood as a story that unfolds in time, with a beginning and an end. A narrative is constructed and emplotted; it is populated by participants, real or imaginary, human or non-human, in a configured relationship to each other and to the unfolding story. Fisher's influential narrative paradigmargues that human beings are essentially storytellers who make decisions on the basis of good reasons, rather than mere rationality. Potential applications of narrative analysis, including the narrative paradigm, in Translation and Interpretation Studies are diverse and only limited by the researcher imagination. Ongoing research, including Karunanayake, Sadler, and Johnson, promises to refine the model further by elaborating more robust definitions of some of its categories and demonstrating how it can be operationalized at the microlevel of verbal and non-verbal analyses, thus making it easier to apply in a sustained manner in future studies.
