Small stories, interaction and identities / Alexandra Georgakopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra.

Series:

Studies in narrative ; v. 8.

Studies in narrative, 1568-2706 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories that have not made it to the mainstream of narrative and identity analysis, yet they abound as well as being crucial sites of subjectivity in everyday interactional contexts. By labelling those stories as 'small', the book emphasizes their distinctiveness, both interactionally and as an antidote to the tradition of 'grand' narratives research. Drawing primarily on the audio-recorded small stories of a group of female adolescents that was studied ethnographically in a town in Greece, the book follows a language-focused and practice-based approach in order to provide fresh answers and perspectives on some of the perennial questions of narrative analysis: How can we (re)conceptualize the mainstay concepts of tellership, structure and evaluation in small stories? How do the participants' telling identities connect with their larger social identities? Finally, what does the project of storying self (and other) mean in small stories and how can it be best explored?.

Contents:

Small Stories, Interaction and Identities

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Transcription symbols

From narrative/text to small stories/practices

1.0. Introduction

1.1. Narrative as talk-in-interaction

1.2. Narrative and social practice: Beyond the here-and-now of local interactions

1.2.1. Narrative in time and place

1.3. Narrative and identities

1.4. Methodological perspectives: Ethnographies of narrative events

1.4.1. Data

Beyond the narrative canon

2.1. The canon

2.1.1. The issue of definition

2.2. Types of small stories

2.2.1. Stories to be told

2.2.2. Breaking news

2.2.3. Projections

2.2.4. Shared stories

2.3. Interactional features

2.4. Conclusion: Small stories in context

Narrative structure in small stories

3.1. Narrative structure beyond Labov

3.2. Structure as sequence

3.3. The emergence of structure

3.4. The temporalization of structure

3.5. Narrative structure and/in narrative genres

3.6. Time and place in projections: Sequential, emergent and temporalized

3.7. Conclusion

Small stories and identities

4.1. From storytelling roles to large identities

4.2. A toolkit for identity analysis

4.2.1. Telling, situational and social identities

4.3. Telling and social roles close up

4.3.1. Social identities ascribed: Self- and other-claims

4.3.2. Sharing and shared stories for identity constructions

4.4. Conclusion: Small stories and identities in social practice

Positioning self and other in small stories

5.1. Narrative identities and positioning

5.1.1. Positioning the `other'

5.2. Positioning cues and small stories

5.2.1. Positioning in action

5.3. Positionings of other as gendered performances

5.4. From other-positionings to self-identities

5.5. Small stories as fantasies.

Conclusion

From big stories to small stories

Small stories as social practices

Small stories as a new perspective in narrative analysis

Small stories and identities: Premises and implications

Appendix

Story 1, `Going out for a crème brûlée'

Story 2, `Talk to him man, talk to him'

Pictures of the town

References

Name index

Subject index

The series Studies in Narrative.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152764

9781282152762

1282152769

9789027292117

9027292116

OCLC:

191950512