Rational World Paradigm to a Narrative One

The rational-world paradigm to a narrative one which can be found in Chapter 23, is somewhat confusing to me. So I figured if I blogged about it, this might help me understand it better. Griffin (2009) defines rational-world paradigm as, “a scientific or philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines of argument. Fisher sees philosophical and technical discussion as scholars’ standard approach to knowledge” (p. 301). Griffin (2009) defines narrative paradigm as, “a theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication” (p.302). The differences I see between these two paradigms are the rational-world people are rational and narrative people are storytellers. The rational-world people make decisions based on arguments and narrative they make decisions based on good reason. It is also important to note that fisher believed the rational-world paradigm is too limited. Another important thing to note is that the rational-world paradigm only experts are qualified to assess communication and the narrative is any one with common sense can assess communication. I guess that both paradigms would work for different research questions.