Kathryn E. Harrison
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kathryn E. Harrison plays a role.
Articles
2016 The United States of wealth: The communicative construction of master and counter narratives of prosperity in the aftermath of the Great Recession Narrative Inquiry 26:1, pp. 39–63 | Article
During the Great Recession, discourses of what constituted prosperity flooded the global landscape. The concept of prosperity became a prominent master narrative that dictated the ways families operated and made decisions. The goal of this study was to examine how 82 married couples experiencing… read more
2015 Children’s interaction in an urban face-to-face society: The case of a South-American plaza Pragmatics and Society 6:3, pp. 305–337 | Article
This paper reports on a micro-ethnography of social interaction in an urban plaza in Colombia, focusing on the plaza’s role as an arena for the acquisition of interaction skills. We investigate how children of different ages initiate and sustain interactions with same-age and older peers and the… read more