Walter Fisher

Other significant works written by Fisher not mentioned in the chapter include:

Walter R. Fisher, “The Narrative Paradigm and the Interpretation and the Assessment of Historical Texts,” Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 25, 1988, pp. 50-53.

Walter R. Fisher, “Narration, Knowledge, and the Possibility of Wisdom,” in Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines, Robert F. Goodman and Walter Fisher (ed.), State University of New York Press, Albany, 1995, pp. 169-192.

Narrative criticism

John F. Cragan and Donald C. Shields, Symbolic Theories in Applied Communication Research: Bormann, Burke, and Fisher, Hampton Press, New York, 1995, pp. 91-122 & 235-67. 

Sonja K. Foss, “Narrative Criticism,” in Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 5th ed., Sonja K. Foss (ed.), Waveland, Long Grove, IL, 2018, pp. 319-366.  

Arthur Asa Berger, Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997.

Teun Dubbelman, “Playing the Hero: How Games Take the Concept of Storytelling from Representation to Presentation,” Journal of Media Practice, Vol. 12, 2011, pp. 157-172

Theoretical and pedagogical considerations

For further information on the concept of the discourse community, see M. Jimmie Killingsworth, “Discourse Community,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition, Theresa Enos (ed.), Routledge, New York, 1996, pp. 194-196.

Destiny Brady, “Theory Synthesis: A Narrative Theory for Nursing Pedagogy,” Nursing Research, Vol. 65, 2016, pp. E77-E78. (Brief abstract is located in article titled “28th Annual Scientific Sessions Abstracts.”)

Melissa Hobart, “My Best Friend's Brother's Cousin Knew This Guy Who … : Hoaxes, Legends, Warnings, and Fisher's Narrative Paradigm,” Communication Teacher, Vol. 27, 2013, pp. 90-93.

Ashley Rives and Allison Wynhoff Olsen, “Where's the Rhetoric?,” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 59, 2015, pp. 161-170.

Applied contexts of Fisher’s paradigm

Mary Angela Bock and David Alan Schneider, “The Voice of Lived Experience: Mobile Video Narratives in the Courtroom,” Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 20, 2017, pp. 335-350

Michael E. Burns, “Recruiting Prospective Students with Stories: How Personal Stories Influence the Process of Choosing a University,” Communication Quarterly, Vol. 63, 2015, pp. 99-118.

Christopher T. Caldiero, “Crisis Storytelling: Fisher's Narrative Paradigm and News Reporting,” American Communication Journal, Vol. 9, 2007, available online at http://ac-journal.org/journal/2007/Spring/articles/storytelling.html

David Carless and Katrina Douglas, “‘In the Boat’ but ‘Selling Myself Short’: Stories, Narratives, and Identity Development in Elite Sport,” Sport Psychologist, Vol. 27, 2013, pp. 27-39.

Mario Cassar and Albert Caruana. “Attracting International Student Applications to a University Website: The Role of Story-Based Content and Gender in Improving Stickiness.” Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2021, pp. 1–18.

Kenneth D. Chestek, “Competing Stories: A Case Study of the Role of Narrative Reasoning in Judicial Decisions,” Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD, 2012, pp. 99-137.

Noah Franken, “(In)Fidelity: The Narrative Rationality of Tiger Woods.” Journal of Communication Inquiry, November, 2021, p. 1.

Eileen Hammond, “Lilly Ledbetter Teaches Us a Lesson: 2012 DNC Speech Gives Way to Public Moral Argument,” Florida Communication Journal, Vol. 41, 2013, pp. 25-37.

Manuel Hernández-Pérez, and José Gabriel Ferreras Rodríguez. “Serial Narrative, Intertextuality, and the Role of Audiences in the Creation of a Franchise: An Analysis of the Indiana Jones Saga from a Cross-Media Perspective.” Mass Communication & Society 17 (1), 2014,  pp.26–53.

Shari Hoppin, “Applying the Narrative Paradigm to the Vaccine Debates,” American Communication Journal, Vol. 18, 2016, pp. 45-55.

L. M. Lareau and Nathan Miczo, N. “Exploring the Relationship Between Online Health Information Seeking Motivations and Patient Narratives for Orthopedic Practice Web Sites,” Ohio Communication Journal, Vol. 55, 2017, pp. 131-145.

Brittany L. Peterson and Johny T. Garner. “Tensions of Narrative Ownership: Exploring the Rise of (Counter) Narratives during the Fall of Mars Hill Church.” Western Journal of Communication 83 (1), 2019, pp. 1–19.

Jia Li, Jie Tang, Xuan Liu, and Ling Ma. “How Do Users Adopt Health Information from Social Media? The Narrative Paradigm Perspective.” Health Information Management Journal 48 (3), 2019, pp. 116–26.

William R. Saltzman, Robert S. Pynoos, Patricia Lester, Christopher M. Layne, and William R. Beardslee, “Enhancing Family Resilience Through Family Narrative Co-Construction,” Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review, Vol. 16, 2013, pp. 294-310.

Valerie Lynn Schrader. “‘Who Tells Your Story?’: Narrative Theory, Public Memory, and the Hamilton Phenomenon.” New Theatre Quarterly 35 (3), 2019, pp. 261–74.