emplot

Definitions

To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.

Examples

“One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean⟳ that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.”

“Each story was then interrogated to determine⟳ how it was emplotted (i.e. how the informants organized and evaluated their stories, around what sets of issues, actors, events, the language used, etc.) and compared with establish⟳ what the individual stories have⟳ in common and where they diverged around specific social or cultural circumstances and variation in meaning for individuals.”

“Emplotting a narrative gives us an "as-if" experience⟳ of ways in which human action relates to happiness (eudaimonia) by illustrating the manner in which certain sorts of conduct lead⟳ to flourishing or decline⟳.”

CEFR level