Storytelling
From Internet: Knowledge and Community
Storytelling is among the three additional elements of Young's expanded conception of communicative democracy along with rhetoric and greeting. Storytelling fosters understanding in three ways described by Young. "1) narrative reveals the particular experiences of those in social locations. 2) Narratives reveal a source of values, culture, and meaning. 3) Narrative reveals a total social knowledge from the point of view of that social position" (131). Young explains the collection of different perspectives produced from storytelling as converging into one "collective social wisdom." By engaging in storytelling Young believes we can properly identify the particularities of each individual involved in a deliberation and therefore better understand what goals should be strived for and how best to approach that task.
