narratee
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- noun
- /ˌnærəˈti/
- Literature
- Let us return to the basic definitions: a narratee is "someone whom the narrator addresses" (Prince, "Introduction" 7).
- narrator and narratee
- audience as narratee
- characterizing the narratee
Examples
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As Prince puts it, "sometimes, the narratee-character of a given account may be, at the same time, its narrator."
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Second-person texts frequently undermine this story-discourse dichotomy by the very nonnaturalness of their design, telling the narratee's or addressee's story.
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We both occupy the position and know what it is like in a way that the narratee herself does not.
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Having seen all this about narratee and narrative audience, what can we conclude about the relation between them?
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His effort is to locate the presence and delineate the functions of the narratee within that object.
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In this way, we feel addressed by the narrator but not fully coincident with the narratee.
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Again, the narratee/ideal narrative audience and narrative audience are clearly distinct.
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Let Prince's definition of narratee stand: the audience addressed by the narrator (the enunciatee).
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Though the narrator assumes a superior footing, the distance between the narratee and the audience exonerates the latter from the address.
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In a novel, the narratee is the character who listens to the story being told by the narrator.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Narratee comes from narrate 'to tell' plus the ending -ee 'person who receives', like in employee. So a narratee is the imagined listener or character inside a story who is being told the story.