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narrative
in
The Tipping Point
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The original Sesame Street was anti-narrative: it was, by design, an unconnected collection of sketches.†
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narrative = story
There was also a theoretical perspective at the time, based in part on (the influential child psychologist] Piaget, that a preschool child couldn't follow an extended narrative.†
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But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.†
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If they don't catch something in a narrative structure, it doesn't get remembered very well, and it doesn't seem to be accessible for further kinds of mulling over.†
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Bruner was involved, in the early 1980s, in a fascinating project — called "Narratives from the Crib" — that was critical in changing the views of many child experts.†
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narratives = stories
She was making up stories, narratives, that explained and organized the things that happened to her.†
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Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives.†
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It is hard to look at this evidence of the importance of narrative and not marvel at the success of Sesame Street.†
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narrative = story
The show has to start out easy — to give the viewers confidence — and then get progressively harder and harder, challenging the preschoolers more and more, drawing them into the narrative.†
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Definitions:

(1) (narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...)
a story; or related to a story
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)