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Publication details [#26343]
Schiffrin, Deborah. 1996. Narrative as self-portrait: sociolinguistic constructions of identity. Language in Society 25 (2) : 167–203.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article explores the display of identity offered through narrative analysis. Stories on family-related problems told by Jewish-American women reveal aspects of their agentive and epistemic selves and show how they construct their position within the family and display their social identities as mothers.