Older adults’ conversations and the emergence of “narrative crystals”

IF 0.9 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI:10.1075/ni.21075.ger
A. Gerstenberg, H. Hamilton
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Energized by seminal scholarship within narrative studies; communication studies of aging and dementia; and formulaic language, we examined a wide range of stories told multiple times within two different longitudinal collections of verbal interactions involving two women in their 80s (one US American; one French). Based on multifaceted analyses of these longitudinal series of stories, we identified a new type of narrative, the “narrative crystal”. We characterize the internal formal architecture of two illustrative crystals (one from each corpus) before illuminating how such crystals function for their speakers as reassuring interactional “stepping stones” within their larger discourse surroundings. Our findings sketch a possible developmental process regarding how meaningful personal experiences come to be transformed over the lifespan: from the inchoate qualities of first-time tellings shaped by the interaction, through incrementally increased stability over the course of many tellings, to reach the highly durable nature of narrative crystals.
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老年人的对话与“叙事晶体”的出现
受到叙事研究中开创性学术的激励;衰老与痴呆的传播学研究;和公式化语言,我们研究了在两个不同的纵向语言互动集合中多次讲述的广泛故事,涉及两位80多岁的女性(一位美国人;一个法国)。基于对这些纵向系列故事的多方面分析,我们确定了一种新的叙事类型——“叙事水晶”。我们描述了两个说明性晶体(每个语料库一个)的内部形式架构,然后阐明了这些晶体如何在更大的话语环境中作为可靠的互动“垫脚石”对它们的说话者起作用。我们的研究结果勾勒出一个可能的发展过程,关于有意义的个人经历如何在一生中转变:从第一次讲述的早期质量由互动塑造,通过多次讲述的过程中逐渐增加的稳定性,达到高度持久的叙事晶体。
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Narrative Inquiry
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期刊介绍: Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.
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