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Narrative methods for the human sciences / Catherine Kohler Riessman.
Lippincott Library H61.295 .R54 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riessman, Catherine Kohler, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative inquiry (Research method).
- Physical Description:
- x, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Sage Publications, [2008]
- Summary:
- Aimed at providing the rigour needed to advance narrative analysis, the author provides an explanation and guideline to readers on: presentation of and reliance on detailed transcripts of interview excerpts; methods for analyzing the structural features of discourse and the analysis of the co-production of narratives through the dialogic exchange between interviewer and participant. After completing this book, readers will be able to perform a narrative study that can be defended as a systematic form of inquiry and provide a criteria for validation of their narrative study.
- Contents:
- Looking back, looking forward
- Constructing narratives for research
- Thematic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Dialogic/performance analysis
- Visual analysis
- Truths and cautions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780761929970
- 0761929975
- 9780761929987
- 0761929983
- OCLC:
- 172521772
- Publisher Number:
- 99938603183
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