We cannot ‘think holistically’, the best we can do is map existing narrative patterns – the substrate – identifying the ‘actants’, and develop ‘constructors’ to encourage the creation of ‘more stories like these, less stories like these’ – focusing on ‘micro-narratives’, and ‘micro-nudging’. This then fractally affects the dispositional thing at scale. Dave Snowden
Micronarrative is a semantic unit of analysis for measuring gesture frequency in multimodal data gathered in nonexperimental settings.
- Quantitative analysis of gesture requires multimodal stretches of discourse to be divided into smaller, bounded, story-like discourse fragments.
- In nonexperimental settings such as focus interviews meaning is co-created by many speakers and the structure of stories is variable, which makes existing units of analysis less than ideal for the data.
- Micronarrative is defined as one or more subsequent clauses on an identifiable discourse topic, where meaning is created or co-created by one or more speakers.
- Micronarrative is a bounded and situated concept answering the need for a unit of analysis for dynamic multi-participant talk.