Stanton E.F. Wortham

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stanton E.F. Wortham plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Language teaching | Pragmatics

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Wortham, Stanton E.F. 2000 Interactional Positioning and Narrative Self-constructionNarrative Identity, Bamberg, Michael and Allyssa McCabe, pp. 157–184 | Article
Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of… read more