Narrative and Research in Professional Communication

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jul 1996

Narrative and Research in Professional Communication

NANCY ROUNDY BLYLER

Abstract

This article explores narrative theory and research in fields closely allied with professional communication to clarify the value of narrative to our discipline. It addresses the move in many fields to reconceptualize research as narrative. Placing narrative within a postmodernist frame, it examines the centrality of ethnography within a postmodernist view. The importance of ethnography in research is related to two key narrative questions that ethnographic theorists in other disciplines are addressing: Who is telling the ethnographic story? For what purposes is the story told? This article supports the importance of taking a critical stance toward these questions and discusses the implications of postmodernist ethnographic theory for research in professional communication.

Journal: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published: 1996-07-01
DOI: 10.1177/1050651996010003003
Open Access: Closed
Topics: qualitative research multimodality professional writing multilingual writers

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