Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (2010), vi, 219 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Series
ISBN 978-1-58901-629-3 (print); 978-1-58901-674-3 (ebook)
"This collection of seventeen contributions provides a small but significant window into some of the themes that, in our view, will define research on narrative in the coming years. Some of these themes have already started taking center stage— for example, the diversification of methodological tools, concepts, and contexts in the study of identities in narratives. Others are relatively new, such as the investigation of how mediated communication has changed storytelling practices and our conception of narrative. Yet other questions were already central to narrative research but have taken new directions—for instance, the study of how narratives participate in the construction of the moral order, and the different roles that truth and deception play in varying social practices. What emerges from the chapters in this book is a common emphasis on contexts and practices, a close attention to differences rather than an assumption of homogeneity. These elements confirm a welcome opening up of the field to the realities of postmodern societies." (Introduction, page 5-6)
"Telling Stories is the outcome of the 2008 Georgetown University Round Table in Languages and Linguistics (GURT), titled Telling Stories: Building Bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society, and Culture." (Acknowledgments)
Introduction / Deborah Schiffrin and Anna De Fina, 1
1 Where should I begin? / William Labov, 7
2 The remediation of storytelling: Narrative performance on early commercial sound recordings / Richard Bauman, 23
3 Narrative, culture, and mind / Jerome Bruner, 45
4 Positioning as a metagrammar for discursive story lines / Rom Harré, 51
5 "Ay ay vienen estos juareños?": on the positioning of selves through code switching by second-generation immigrant college students / Alan D. Hansen, Luke Moissinac, Cristal Renteria and Eliana Razo, 57
6 A tripartite self-construction model of identity / Leor Cohen, 69
7 Narratives of reputation: layerings of social and spatial identities / Gabriella Modan and Amy Shuman, 83
8 Identity building through narratives on a Tulu call-in TV show / Malavika Shetty, 95
9 Blank check for biography? Openness and ingenuity in the management of the "who-am-I-question" and what life stories actually may not be good for / Michael Bamberg, 109
10 Reflection and self-disclosure from the small stories perspective: a study of identity claims in interview and conversational data / Alexandra Georgakopoulou, 123
11 Negotiating deviance: identity, trajectories, and norms in a graffitist's interview narrative / Jarmila Mildorf, 135
12 Interaction and narrative structure in dementia / Lars Christer Hydén and Linda Örulv, 149
13 Concurrent and intervening actions during storytelling in family "ceremonial" dinners / Jenny Mandelbaum, 161
14 Truth and authorship in textual trajectories / Isolda E. Carranza, 173
15 Legitimation and the heteroglossic nature of closing arguments / Laura Felton Rosulek, 181
16 Multimodal storytelling and identity construction in graphic narratives / David Herman, 195
17 The role of style-shifting in the functions and purposes of storytelling: detective stories in anime / Fumiko Nazikian, 209
1 Where should I begin? / William Labov, 7
2 The remediation of storytelling: Narrative performance on early commercial sound recordings / Richard Bauman, 23
3 Narrative, culture, and mind / Jerome Bruner, 45
4 Positioning as a metagrammar for discursive story lines / Rom Harré, 51
5 "Ay ay vienen estos juareños?": on the positioning of selves through code switching by second-generation immigrant college students / Alan D. Hansen, Luke Moissinac, Cristal Renteria and Eliana Razo, 57
6 A tripartite self-construction model of identity / Leor Cohen, 69
7 Narratives of reputation: layerings of social and spatial identities / Gabriella Modan and Amy Shuman, 83
8 Identity building through narratives on a Tulu call-in TV show / Malavika Shetty, 95
9 Blank check for biography? Openness and ingenuity in the management of the "who-am-I-question" and what life stories actually may not be good for / Michael Bamberg, 109
10 Reflection and self-disclosure from the small stories perspective: a study of identity claims in interview and conversational data / Alexandra Georgakopoulou, 123
11 Negotiating deviance: identity, trajectories, and norms in a graffitist's interview narrative / Jarmila Mildorf, 135
12 Interaction and narrative structure in dementia / Lars Christer Hydén and Linda Örulv, 149
13 Concurrent and intervening actions during storytelling in family "ceremonial" dinners / Jenny Mandelbaum, 161
14 Truth and authorship in textual trajectories / Isolda E. Carranza, 173
15 Legitimation and the heteroglossic nature of closing arguments / Laura Felton Rosulek, 181
16 Multimodal storytelling and identity construction in graphic narratives / David Herman, 195
17 The role of style-shifting in the functions and purposes of storytelling: detective stories in anime / Fumiko Nazikian, 209
