Narrative Continuum of Corporeal Culture

DOI

10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

narratives, corporeal culture, axiological presupposition, metanarrative

Abstract

The paper explores the main ways of conceptualizing the human body in the different strata of the narrative continuum, including subjective (individual narratives), intersubjective (organizational narratives) and oversubjective (metanarratives) levels. Contemporary appreciation of the corporeal reality has given rise to a number of body-oriented practices (e.g. sports, diet, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, etc.) which aim to achieve and enhance human physical and mental health. We used methods of content analysis, narrative interviewing, and interpretative analysis to obtain and investigate the narratives of the participants of such practices. An analysis of conceptual and formal language features of the two types of narratives (individual and organizational narratives) has made it possible to identify both axiological presuppositions they are rooted in and the universal iterant metamessages inherent in the Russian corporeal culture and embedded in language.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - V. V. Zhura
AU  - Ju. V. Rudova
AU  - Zh. S. Martinson
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Narrative Continuum of Corporeal Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Current issues of linguistics and didactics: The interdisciplinary approach in humanities" (CILDIAH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 336
EP  - 341
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.60
DO  - 10.2991/cildiah-17.2017.60
ID  - Zhura2017/11
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