The other side of the story: towards a narrative analysis of narratives-in-interaction
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Discourse Studies
- Vol. 8 (2), 235-257
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445606061795
Abstract
The starting point of this article is what will be identified as the ‘narrative canon’ comprising a specific type of narrative (past events personal experience elicited in research interviews) that mutually feeds into a specific analytic vocabulary, an interpretive idiom, and a research agenda (normally identity analysis) within conventional narrative analysis. The aim here is to give voice to, and advance understanding for, stories that do not fit this canon and are thus in the fringes of narrative research. Examples of such stories are brought in from two communication contexts (adolescents’ conversations - private email messages) and their interactional features of ongoing-ness, intertextuality and recontextualization are documented. The issues that are then addressed on their basis involve the ways in which mainstream conceptualization of narrative analysis (e.g. tellership, tellability, embeddedness) can be revised and stretched to reach out to those cases; also, the implications for narrative cum identity research.Keywords
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