difference between narrative and discourse

Re: difference between narrative and discourse

by Patricia Greenhalgh -
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Sort of. Discourse doesn't have to take a narrative form. Narrative of course does.  Most things can be looked at as narrative AND discoruse. Just like my bike is both steel and a Condor. The taxonomy is not especially helpful I think as the categories aren't mutually exclusive!  Then there's the issue of narrative as noun (the story) versus narrative as verb (the story-telling). There's more on narrative later in the course!