Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
Storytelling is a fundamental human practice. Both in phylogeny and in ontogeny, the ability to tell stories has been related to important milestones in evolution and in psychological development. We devote much time and attention to narratives, both in how we engage with films, literary fiction, series, gossip, and other story-telling formats, and we structure learning, working and socializing around stories. One constitutive element of stories is the act of telling and within it the concept of a narrating voice. Acknowledging that reading triggers mental imagery and that such imagery is robustly multimodal and occurs in the absence of an actual sensorial input paves the way to a new consideration of voice in narrative, as a constitutive element of the genre and a central part of the experience of reading.