Narrator authority in traditional cultures derives from having been narrated by others

Evidence

The pragmatic rule illustrated by this example cannot, of course, be universalized. But it gives insight into what is a generally recognized property of traditional knowledge. The narrative “posts” (sender, addressee, hero) are so organized that the right to occupy the post of sender receives the following double grounding: it is based upon the fact of having occupied the post of addressee, and of having been recounted oneself, by virtue of the name one bears, by a previous narrative—in other words, having been positioned as the diegetic reference of other narrative events. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 199

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how the sender post is legitimated in narrative pragmatics — the double grounding of authority.
• XREF: Connects to Jameson’s reading of Lyotard — this is the ‘premodern’ non-legitimated knowledge Jameson contrasts with the postmodern condition. — connects to: Elders derive epistemic authority from lived experience and oral transmission in absence of writing

Broader Connections

• Elders derive epistemic authority from lived experience and oral transmission in absence of writing #corroborates (0.82)