Aisulu Kulbayeva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aisulu Kulbayeva is involved.
Articles
2026 “I don’t follow their whims!”: Narrative evaluation and blaming culture in personal stories of immigrant caregivers from post-Soviet states Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
The capacity of narratives to reflect broader ideologies has been well documented (e.g., Tannen, 2008), but the role of narrative evaluation (Labov, 1972) in this process has received less attention. This study showcases how narrative evaluation can serve as a central arena for ideological work.… read more
2025 Chapter 9. Voices from the Kazakhstani periphery: Constructing an identity of a village woman through a selfportrait in a mealtime narrative Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 188–217 | Chapter
The study integrates Schiffrin’s (1996) work on agentive and epistemic selves and Bamberg’s (1997) model of positioning to examine how an identity of a peripheral Kazakh woman is achieved via a self-portrait and a co-construction with another Kazakh woman in a mealtime conversation. Focusing on… read more
2022 Presenting self and aligning as a team through narratives of victimhood among Kazakh-speaking village neighbors Narrative Inquiry 32:2, pp. 309–342 | Article
This study illustrates how personal narratives of victimized self serve two Kazakh-speaking village neighbors to accomplish self-presentation during a mealtime interaction. Integrating Goffman’s (1959) theorization of self-presentation with narrative positioning (Bamberg, 1997; Schiffrin, 1996)… read more