Inleiding: Verhaal en werkelijkheid

Samenvatting

Introduction: Story and reality. The introduction sketches the rapprochement between social science and literature. Sociologists and anthropologists tend to lose interest in the natural science ideal of strict objectivity and attempt to present their research theme in the context of a human "story". This literary turn in social science brings into focus common methodological assumptions of linguistics and the study of literature on the one hand and the study of culture and society on the other.