emplot

Verb

emplot (third-person singular simple present emplots, present participle emplotting, simple past and past participle emplotted)

1. To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.
   • One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.1991, Dorothy Matilda Figueira, Translating the Orient, page 8
   • Each story was then interrogated to determine how it was emplotted (i.e. how the informants organized and evaluated their stories, around what sets of issues, actors, events, the language used, etc.) and compared with establish what the individual stories have in common and where they diverged...2013 February 7, Jackie Ellis et al., “The long-term impact of early parental death: lessons from a narrative study”, in J R Soc Med, →DOI