The aim of the article is to problematise and discuss the usefulness of the chronological I as a new analytical approach for studying the doing of identity in storytelling. The chronological I can be both a rhetorical resource for narrators and a new analytical tool for studying the process of doing identity. The article suggests that the chronological I adds a new analytical dimension to different types of narrative analysis. The article takes its point of departure in the understanding of the narrator as using time as a rhetorical resource for telling or doing identity in ongoing interactions. In this discursive narrative approach, narratives are viewed as socially situated actions in a context in which the narrator has to relate to culturally accepted agreements about responsibility and agency. The data for this article is based on interviews with twelve individuals exposed to workplace bullying. As this topic is sensitive, there is a need for narrators to manage their accountability when asked to account for their agency or non agency in the reported events.
Kuusela, Pekka, Pasi Hirvonen & Luk Van Langenhove
2024. Struggle Over Rights and Duties at Work: Storylines and Discursive Self-Other Positioning in Workplace Bullying Stories. Sage Open 14:3
Michelson, Stina
2024. Children’s narratives about well-being in the face of difficult life experiences: Renegotiated self-understandings as turning points. Qualitative Social Work 23:2 ► pp. 282 ff.
Wallner, Lars
2024. Constructing moments of insight: accounting for learning in classroom discussions on narrative fiction reading. Classroom Discourse► pp. 1 ff.
2022. Valuable everyday encounters in early childhood education: narratives from professionals. Early Years 42:4-5 ► pp. 434 ff.
Niemi, Anna-Maija
2022. ‘It hasn’t Been the Best Year, but here I am’: Young Adults Interpreting their Agency in Relation to the Self-Governing Discourse, Social Relations and Life Contexts. Journal of Applied Youth Studies 5:3 ► pp. 177 ff.
Asplund, Stig-Börje & Héctor Pérez Prieto
2019. Approaching life story interviews as sites of interaction. Qualitative Research Journal 20:2 ► pp. 175 ff.
Blomberg, Helena
2019. “We’re not magicians!” On the use of rhetorical resources in Swedish news media narratives portraying the social services and social workers. Qualitative Social Work 18:2 ► pp. 229 ff.
Lindell, Eva & Eva Wittbom
2019. Positioning of diversity in the production of traffic information. Research in Transportation Business & Management 31 ► pp. 100391 ff.
2019. Pupils’ perceptions of grades: a narrative analysis of stories about getting graded for the first time. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 26:3 ► pp. 259 ff.
2018. Pupils’ enactments of a policy for equivalence: Stories about different conditions when preparing for national tests. European Educational Research Journal 17:5 ► pp. 676 ff.
Kilger, Magnus & Rickard Jonsson
2017. Talent Production in Interaction. Communication & Sport 5:1 ► pp. 110 ff.
Löfgren, Ragnhild & Håkan Löfgren
2017. Swedish students' experiences of national testing in science: A narrative approach. Curriculum Inquiry 47:4 ► pp. 390 ff.
2014. Boys' Anti-School Culture? Narratives and School Practices. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 45:3 ► pp. 276 ff.
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