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Abstract
The study investigates story-telling in naturally-occurring interactions in a care home for older people with
dementia in England. Stories were told by a range of discourse participants and varied from more relationally-oriented anecdotes
occurring as part of small talk to more transactionally-oriented narratives embedded into work routines. The main aim of the study
was to explore narratives as social practice in the interactions of the care staff and to discover what functions they perform in
their workplace practice and more generally in that of the care home. The analysis focused principally on two primarily
work-oriented narrative types: “working stories” and “narratives of professional practice”. The findings were that such stories
performed a range of key functions in the professional practice of the care givers, in particular problem-solving,
knowledge-sharing and critical evaluation.
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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