Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Turkey, we draw on Fisher’s narrative paradigm to focus on how our participants carry out assessments of narrative credibility. To elucidate narrative coherence and fidelity, we take inspiration from an argumentative-rhetorical perspective, and focus specifically on the relationship among the criteria identified in the literature on narrative assessment. Our study of interviewee evaluations of COVID-19 narratives confirms the use of the coherence criteria, calls into question the fidelity criteria, and highlights the relevance of identification as a basic process for fidelity assessments. We conclude by discussing our limitations and directions for further research.

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评估连贯性和保真度


非虚构叙事具有开放式特征，将角色和价值观投射给参与其中的人。反过来，叙事参与需要叙事评估和识别过程，通过这个过程，对价值观和立场的坚持可能会失败或实现。在对土耳其各地大学生的采访分析中，我们借鉴了 Fisher 的叙事范式，重点关注我们的参与者如何对叙事可信度进行评估。为了阐明叙事的连贯性和保真度，我们从论证修辞的角度汲取灵感，并特别关注叙事评估文献中确定的标准之间的关系。我们对受访者对 COVID-19 叙述评估的研究证实了连贯标准的使用，对保真度标准提出了质疑，并强调了识别作为保真度评估基本过程的相关性。最后，我们讨论了我们的局限性和进一步研究的方向。