In the last several years or so, we have continuously concentrated our research interests on topics of “aging” and “narrative,” and obtained useful academic experiences. In this paper we decided to go one-step further by studying the theme of “life story” and consider it our first attempt to integrate communication and narrative, the two research traditions which had rarely been connected by any previous effort. In the following pages, therefore, we introduced three research areas that have primarily explored the meanings of “life stories” in the past decades, including narrative psychology, narrative gerontology, and life story interviews. We believe, based on the literatures that we introduced in this paper, these three areas would all contribute to our attempt of integrating communication and narrative as a new field. To achieve the abovementioned research goals, we briefly brought up three sub-fields that might be applied in the future, such as narrative organizing, narrative marketing, and narrative writing in new media. It is hoped that, after our in-depth studies of these three sub-fields, it would be possible to propose a theory of “narrative communication” with the concept of life stories being the core ideas.
中文關鍵詞
敘事，傳播，生命故事，敘事傳播學
英文關鍵詞
narrative，communication，life stories，narrative communication