Over the past 30 years we have seen a welcome growth in the understanding of narrative as a complex and broadly defined set of concepts. While the complexity of children’s narrative development has been brought to light by researchers and theorists across multiple fields of study, reflecting this growth by comprehensively analyzing narrative complexity still remains a challenge. One reason for this ongoing challenge is the isolated, disparate focus of the approaches, either in analyzing solely story structure, content, or function. Few approaches combine these disparate dimensions to comprehensively analyze children’s narratives. In response, we build on research from the past 30 years to develop the Two-Lens Approach, a holistic theoretical framework for analyzing the form, content, and context of children’s narratives. This paper presents and applies this approach in an effort to start closing the gaps among the field of narrative analysis and narrative theory.

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双镜头方法

在过去的 30 年里，我们看到人们将叙事理解为一组复杂且定义广泛的概念，这一点令人欣喜。虽然跨多个研究领域的研究人员和理论家已经揭示了儿童叙事发展的复杂性，但通过综合分析叙事复杂性来反映这种发展仍然是一个挑战。这一持续挑战的一个原因是这些方法的孤立、不同的重点，无论是在单独分析故事结构、内容还是功能方面。很少有方法结合这些不同的维度来全面分析儿童的叙述。作为回应，我们在过去 30 年的研究基础上开发了双镜头方法，这是一种用于分析儿童叙事的形式、内容和背景的整体理论框架。