The Structures of Political, Economic, and Socio-cultural Rhetorical Narratives on Social Media

This research was conducted on the ground of the reason for the increasingly
widespread use of narratives on various social media platforms. Narrative is
an event whereby someone represents an event aiming to influence the
understanding, emotions and values of others. This study qualitatively aims
to capture the most common elements of narrative structure focusing on
political, economic, and socio-cultural rhetorical narratives data originated
from social media platforms. The theoretical model of narrative structure
consisting of Abstract, Orientation, Complicating Actions, Resolution, Evaluation
and Coda, as proposed by Labov and Waletzky was used to analyze the
narrative data collected during the first four months of 2022. On the ground
of social situated meanings, the findings show that the most common model
of narrative structure is fully used whenever greater details of events, facts,
or information are needed to be emphasized. For such reasons, all the
elements of narrative structure are held to be obligatory. The findings show
that some elements of narrative structure are left out and held to be optional
as such elements are not considered necessary to convey the main content.
In addition, the findings also show that some particular element allows it to
be further developed with more embedded events, facts, opinion, or information.