SubjectsLinguistics / Narrative Studies
Book series
ISSN 1568-2706
Journals
Narrative Inquiry
Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe
ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse
Anders Pettersson
Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 22] 2026. xv, 186 pp.
Identity Perspectives from Peripheries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman
Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods, new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] 2025. vii, 295 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States
Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity. Through stories, Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world, and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad… read more[Studies in Narrative, 28] 2025. xiii, 250 pp.
Applied Narratology
Edited by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 34:2 (2024) v, 199 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Edited by Adams Bodomo and Carola Koblitz
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective is a captivating collection of research articles. This volume explores the intricate connections between language, culture, and identity across the globe. An agenda-setting introduction by the editors and essays by… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 21] 2024. xi, 275 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Transformative Reading
Olivia Fialho
Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
Conversiones Religiosas e Identitarias al Islam: Un estudio transatlántico de Españoles y US Latinos
Marta Boris Tarré
Religious and Identity Conversions to Islam: A Transatlantic Study of Spaniards and US latinos examines how two groups with historical, cultural, and linguistic commonalities redefine their new religious identity and make sense of their conversion to Islam, not only as national groups but also, as… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 39] 2023. xii, 204 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Memory and Narrative
Edited by Alma Jeftic, Thomas Van de Putte and Johana Wyss
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 33:2 (2023) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts
Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 32:1 (2022) vi, 243 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed
Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Dorien Van De Mieroop
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 31:1 (2021) vi, 262 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Discourses on the Edges of Life
Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente
Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 26] 2020. vi, 196 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees
Emily Greenbank
Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters of microlevel discourse analysis – drawing on Bamberg &… read more[Studies in Narrative, 27] 2020. x, 228 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of… read moreOther subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies
Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life
Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives
Edited by Silvia Bigliazzi
Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives explores how Shakespeare intervened in the Italian socio-political and cultural scene between his third and fourth centenaries, at times which were manifestly perceived as ‘critical’. It asks which complex mythopoietic processes… read more[Shakespeare in European Culture, 2] 2020. x, 292 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace
Michał Wilczewski
This book systematically investigates intercultural experiences of Polish managers and specialists delegated by their multinational company (MNC) on an international assignment to China. The book employs narrative inquiry to explore language, intercultural communication, collaboration, learning,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 26] 2019. xix, 325 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism
Intertextuality in Practice
Jessica Mason
The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention
Edited by Edy Veneziano and Ageliki Nicolopoulou
In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 25] 2019. xix, 318 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Writing and literacy
Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling
Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Storytelling in the Digital World
Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino
Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contributors’ online ethnographies investigate a wide range of themes including the nature of processes of transformation and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 104] 2019. v, 131 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns
Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar
In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional… read more[Argumentation in Context, 16] 2019. ix, 188 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
Edited by Marianna Patrona
How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer
E. Birgitta Svensson
This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional… read more[Studies in Narrative, 24] 2018. xi, 297 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Writing and literacy
Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages
Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
Narrative, Identity, and the City: Filipino stories of dislocation and relocation
Edited by Raul P. Lejano
Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 8] 2018. xii, 170 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Translating the Female Self across Cultures: Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
Eliana Maestri
Translating the Female Self across Cultures examines contemporary autobiographical narratives and their Italian and French translations. The comparative analyses of the texts are underpinned by the latest developments in Translation Studies that place emphasis on identity construction in… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 130] 2018. xiv, 302 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Dialogue across Media
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas
With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of consciousness
Eric Rundquist
Free Indirect Style (FIS) is a linguistic technique that defies the logic of human subjectivity by enabling readers to directly observe the subjective experiences of third-person characters. This book consolidates the existing literary-linguistic scholarship on FIS into a theory that is based… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 29] 2017. xvii, 197 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Gunter Senft
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s… read moreOther subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Austronesian languages
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers
Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers considers retellings and adaptations from a ‘glocal’ context: a framework focused on the reciprocal and cross-cultural exchange between global processes and local practices and their potential transformative effects. The study… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 8] 2017. xix, 230 pp.
Narrative Absorption
Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru
Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.
Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges
Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017) vi, 209 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies
Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other
Susan XU Yun
This book presents an interdisciplinary study that straddles four academic fields, namely, autobiography, stylistics, narratology and translation studies. It shows that foregrounding is manifested in the language of autobiography, alerting readers to an authorial tone with certain ideological… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 136] 2017. xv, 231 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves
Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop
This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’
Edited by Lesley Stirling, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 26:2 (2016) v, 308 pp.
Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women
Priti Sandhu
This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education – Hindi, English, or a combination of both – on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or… read more[Studies in Narrative, 23] 2016. ix, 348 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines
Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher
This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
Edited by Farzana Gounder
Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.
Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion
Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Chien-ju Chang
Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion is a collection of papers presenting original research on narration in Mandarin, especially as it contrasts to what is known regarding narration in English. One chapter addresses dinner table conversation between Chinese immigrant parents… read more[Studies in Narrative, 19] 2013. viii, 213 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective
Edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper
Why is it that we tend to think about our lives as stories? Why do we strive to create coherent narratives that reflect a particular perspective? What happens when we discover multiple, perhaps conflicting perspectives in our narratives? Following groundbreaking work in the study of narrative… read more[Studies in Narrative, 17] 2013. vi, 209 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
The Travelling Concepts of Narrative
Edited by Mari Hatavara, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen
Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 18] 2013. vi, 311 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories
Mariko Karatsu
This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Indentured Identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji
Farzana Gounder
The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not… read more[Studies in Narrative, 15] 2011. xvii, 345 pp.
Other subjects Contact Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Learning and Teaching Narrative Inquiry: Travelling in the Borderlands
Edited by Sheila Trahar
In the final chapter of this volume, the authors refer to the “pedagogical vantage points offered by narrative inquiry”, an apt comment that encapsulates the volume’s purpose and its spirit. As an increasing number of people throughout the world – and from a broad range of disciplines – are turning… read more[Studies in Narrative, 14] 2011. vi, 178 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Beyond Narrative Coherence
Edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou
Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain… read more[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative construction in mediation
Katherine A. Stewart and Madeline M. Maxwell
Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by participants in formal mediation sessions, by asking how many of the five cases in the videotaped data display the adversarial narrative pattern pervasive… read more[Studies in Narrative, 12] 2010. vii, 137 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre
Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski
This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation… read more[Studies in Narrative, 13] 2010. vi, 313 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Oral History: The challenges of dialogue
Edited by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Krzysztof Zamorski
Oral History: The Challenges of Dialogue shows contemporary oral history at work in a variety of contexts, levels, and engagements. The issues developed in the book correspond to different stages of research: preparing and conducting the interview, evaluating and analyzing the collected material,… read more[Studies in Narrative, 10] 2009. xviii, 224 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Power and Narrative
Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
Edited by Michael Bamberg, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin
The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 9] 2007. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Small Stories, Interaction and Identities
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories… read more[Studies in Narrative, 8] 2007. xi, 185 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Narrative – State of the Art
Edited by Michael Bamberg
This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with… read moreSpecial issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) 236 pp
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations
Asher Shkedi
This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Narrative Interaction
Edited by Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker
Telling stories in conversations is intricately interwoven with the interactive and local functions of story telling. Telling stories demands a certain kind of context and in itself establishes a particular interactive reality. Thus, narration is a specific kind of verbal interaction, governed by… read more[Studies in Narrative, 5] 2005. vi, 306 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Sociolinguistics of Narrative
Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates
This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense
Edited by Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews
Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting… read more[Studies in Narrative, 4] 2004. x, 381 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse
Anna De Fina
This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and… read more[Studies in Narrative, 3] 2003. xiv, 252 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project
Edited by Roger D. Sell
In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh
How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Narrative Identity
Michael Bamberg and Allyssa McCabe
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 10:1 (2000) 265 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4 (1997)
Narrative Construction of Emotional Life
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 5:3 (1995)
Historical Representation
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 4:4 (1994)
Narrativization of the News
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 4:1/2 (1994)
Keeping Ourselves Alive
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 3:2/3 (1993)
The Afterlife of the Life History
Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Life History 2:1 (1992)