Discursive psychologists (Edley, 2001; Potter & Wetherell, 1987; Wetherell, 1998) have analysed identity work in talk, including the ways in which understandings which prevail in a wider social context are taken up or resisted as speakers position themselves and are positioned by others. In these terms, a narrative is generally understood in two ways. The first is as an established understanding of sequence or consequence, such as a potential life trajectory, which becomes a discursive resource for speakers to draw on (cf. Bruner’s ‘canonical narratives’, 1991). The second is of a narrative as a situated construction, such as the biography produced by a speaker within a particular interaction. In this article, I propose an expanded analytic focus which considers how the versions of a biographical narrative produced in previous tellings become resources for future talk, thus setting constraints on a reflexive speaker’s work to construct a coherent identity across separate interactions and contexts (Taylor & Littleton, forthcoming).
2014. Deficit and asset identity constructions of single women without children living in Australia: An analysis of discourse. Feminism & Psychology 24:4 ► pp. 423 ff.
2015. Being stuck in a vice: The process of coping with severe depression in late life. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 10:1 ► pp. 27187 ff.
2017. Reproductive justice in context: South African and Zimbabwean women’s narratives of their abortion decision. Feminism & Psychology 27:2 ► pp. 203 ff.
Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos
2021. Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Communities. In Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences [Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 31], ► pp. 247 ff.
Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos Adrian
2015. ‘I have never cared for particular disciplines' – negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative. Contemporary Social Science 10:1 ► pp. 86 ff.
Derrien, Monika M. & Patricia A. Stokowski
2014. Sense of Place as a Learning Process: Examples from the Narratives of Bosnian Immigrants in Vermont. Leisure Sciences 36:2 ► pp. 107 ff.
GRISWOLD, OLGA V.
2010. Narrating America: Socializing Adult ESL Learners Into Idealized Views of the United States During Citizenship Preparation Classes. TESOL Quarterly 44:3 ► pp. 488 ff.
Holley, Peter
2018. “I’m a Citizen of the World”: Cosmopolitanism and Identity Work in the Telling of Migration Stories. In Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences, ► pp. 167 ff.
Kirkevold, Marit, Line Kildal Bragstad, Berit A. Bronken, Kari Kvigne, Randi Martinsen, Ellen Gabrielsen Hjelle, Gabriele Kitzmüller, Margrete Mangset, Sanne Angel, Lena Aadal, Siren Eriksen, Torgeir B. Wyller & Unni Sveen
2018. Promoting psychosocial well-being following stroke: study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial. BMC Psychology 6:1
Kirkevold, Marit, Randi Martinsen, Berit Arnesveen Bronken & Kari Kvigne
2014. Promoting psychosocial wellbeing following stroke using narratives and guided self-determination: a feasibility study. BMC Psychology 2:1
Ladegaard, Hans J.
2012. The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Identity construction in domestic helper narratives1. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16:4 ► pp. 450 ff.
McGuire, Niamh, William Evans & Mary Brosnan
2022. A discursive study exploring the professional identities of registered nurses employed in older person residential care settings. International Journal of Older People Nursing 17:1
Paakspuu, Kalli
2016. Re-Reading the Portrait and the Archive’s Social Memory. Canadian Review of American Studies 46:3 ► pp. 311 ff.
Phafoli, Lehlohonolo S & NS Zulu
2014. Narratives of personal experience: The construction of identity in Basotho accordion songs. South African Journal of African Languages 34:2 ► pp. 181 ff.
Sjöberg, Magdalena & Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist
2017. Who is the mother? Exploring the meaning of grandparental support in young Swedish mothers’ narratives. Feminism & Psychology 27:3 ► pp. 318 ff.
Sjöberg, Magdalena & Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist
2018. Youthful mothering? Exploring the meaning of adulthood and youthfulness within the maternal identity work of young Swedish mothers. Feminism & Psychology 28:3 ► pp. 355 ff.
Strong, Tom, Marnie Rogers-de Jong & Samantha Merritt
2014. Co-Authoring “We-ness” and Stories of Intimacy. Contemporary Family Therapy 36:3 ► pp. 398 ff.
Wilmers, Leila
2022. How we engage the principles of nationalism in making sense of uncertainty and disruptive social change. Ethnic and Racial Studies 45:14 ► pp. 2705 ff.
Wilmers, Leila
2023. The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg. Nationalities Papers 51:2 ► pp. 258 ff.
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