Greer Cavallaro Johnson

Cavallaro Johnson, Greer 2008 Making visible an ideological dilemma in an interview narrative about social trauma Narrative Inquiry 18:2, pp. 187–205 | Article

This article builds on contemporary understandings that identity is accomplished interactionally and discursively through storyteller/interviewer engagement inside the telling of the story. It introduces a new notion of narrative inquiry through the concept of “transactional positioning” to… read more

Paoletti, Isabella and Greer Cavallaro Johnson 2007 Doing "being ordinary" in an interview narrative with a second generation Italian-Australian woman Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse, Bamberg, Michael, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 89–105 | Article

Cavallaro Johnson, Greer and Isabella Paoletti 2004 Orienting to the category “ordinary – but special” in an Australian-Italian courtship and marriage narrative Narrative Inquiry 14:1, pp. 191–218 | Article

This article explores the possibilities of working ethnomethodological and conversation analysis methods into narrative analytic research, in relation to the understanding of narrative practices and identity work carried out in the course of the interview interaction. More specifically, we discuss… read more

Cavallaro Johnson, Greer 2001 A Cautionary Tale: A Dialogic Re-reading of a Student Teacher’s Visual Narrative Narrative Inquiry 11:2, pp. 451–478 | Article

In the past, narrative inquiry into teaching has relied mostly on written materials in the form of autobiographies, biographies and personal diaries and journals. This paper changes the focus from the written mode to the visual-verbal by examining one student-teacher’s hand drawn picture book as a… read more

Baker, Carolyn and Greer Cavallaro Johnson 2000 Stories of Courtship and Marriage: Orientations in Openings Narrative Inquiry 10:2, pp. 377–401 | Article

This paper presents initial analyses of the opening sequences of a number of courtship and marriage stories told by elderly Italian-Australians. Using a conversation-analytic perspective, the paper contributes to the study of how storytelling is a co-construction of teller and audience. The focus… read more

Cavallaro Johnson, Greer 1999 Telling Tales: A Complicated Narrative About Courtship Narrative Inquiry 9:1, pp. 1–23 | Article

This paper presents a progressive understanding of the shifting power relations that are constructed in the telling of a courtship and marriage narrative by an Australian-Italian couple who have been married for well over thirty years. The focus on relations of power is pursued through attention to… read more

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