Turkey is the largest refugee host country in the world with about 3.5 million registered Syrian refugees. In this study, we explored intergroup relations between Syrian refugees and Turks in Turkey. We focused on how Turkish people perceived Syrian refugees in Turkey and how these two groups interacted daily. We used an adaptation of McAdams’ Life Story Interview and asked questions about Syrian refugees in the Turkish context. Using this open-ended, qualitative interviewing technique allowed us to understand how Turks and Syrians interacted on a daily basis and what shaped Turkish people’s perceptions about refugees. We conducted a narrative analysis based on agency and communion themes. Results showed that age of participant was negatively correlated with communion, whereas education of participant was positively correlated with agency. Agency and communion positively correlated with each other. Narratives reflected a range of reflections Turkish citizens had about the large influx of Syrian refugees.
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This paper examines how disaster-related discourses are produced in storytelling, and whether and in what way these discourses may change in the second telling. We examine two sets of retold stories taken from a corpus of 123 retold stories about the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. Findings indicate that these storytellers tell structurally similar stories, yet implement subtle linguistic changes which produce different positionings and discourses in the two tellings. We draw on positioning analysis and the ethnomethodological concept of tellability to show how, in the first telling, the storytellers orient to and produce discourses of united togetherness, whereas in the second telling they produce discourses of bravery and heroism. We argue that the positioning and discursive strategies used in disaster stories may change drastically over time, showing how retold stories of the same event change to meet the evolving realities of the teller and their post-disaster community.
{"title":"Shifting discourses of togetherness and heroism in retold earthquake stories","authors":"Hayden Blain, P. Millar","doi":"10.1075/ni.22107.bla","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22107.bla","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines how disaster-related discourses are produced in storytelling, and whether and in what way\u0000 these discourses may change in the second telling. We examine two sets of retold stories taken from a corpus of 123 retold stories\u0000 about the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand. Findings indicate that these storytellers tell structurally similar\u0000 stories, yet implement subtle linguistic changes which produce different positionings and discourses in the two tellings. We draw\u0000 on positioning analysis and the ethnomethodological concept of tellability to show how, in the first telling, the storytellers\u0000 orient to and produce discourses of united togetherness, whereas in the second telling they produce discourses of\u0000 bravery and heroism. We argue that the positioning and discursive strategies used in disaster stories may change\u0000 drastically over time, showing how retold stories of the same event change to meet the evolving realities of the teller and their\u0000 post-disaster community.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41847715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study explored Mandarin-speaking children’s independent ability in using conjunctions to relate events in personal narration. Twenty three-year-olds, twenty four-year-olds, twenty five-year-olds and twenty six-year-olds participated, and they were prompted to tell personal stories. Conjunctions were assessed in terms of the use of seven types of connectives. With age, Mandarin-speaking children used more diversified conjunctions and produced more conjunctions in their personal narratives. Significant differences were found across age groups in the frequency of sequential, temporal, and simple connectives, but the proportional use of these three connectives did not differ across age groups. No gender differences were found in the use of any of the connectives. Mandarin-speaking children relied on sequential, temporal and simple connectives to relate events in their narratives, and the use of causal, additive, adversative and conditional connectives were rare. Chinese mothers’ greater emphasis on knowledge, social rules and moral standards may contribute to this.
{"title":"How do Mandarin-speaking children relate events in personal narratives?","authors":"Fangfang Zhang, Yan Wang, A. McCabe","doi":"10.1075/ni.22031.zha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22031.zha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study explored Mandarin-speaking children’s independent ability in using conjunctions to relate events in personal narration. Twenty three-year-olds, twenty four-year-olds, twenty five-year-olds and twenty six-year-olds participated, and they were prompted to tell personal stories. Conjunctions were assessed in terms of the use of seven types of connectives. With age, Mandarin-speaking children used more diversified conjunctions and produced more conjunctions in their personal narratives. Significant differences were found across age groups in the frequency of sequential, temporal, and simple connectives, but the proportional use of these three connectives did not differ across age groups. No gender differences were found in the use of any of the connectives. Mandarin-speaking children relied on sequential, temporal and simple connectives to relate events in their narratives, and the use of causal, additive, adversative and conditional connectives were rare. Chinese mothers’ greater emphasis on knowledge, social rules and moral standards may contribute to this.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44448005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Weinstein & Miller (2021):","authors":"Krista L. Harrison","doi":"10.1075/ni.22104.har","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22104.har","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45683075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Farmasi (2023): Narrative, perception, and the embodied mind: Towards a neuro-narratology","authors":"Fang Wang","doi":"10.1075/ni.22113.wan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22113.wan","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43421957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this essay, I aim to shore up the epistemological foundations of memory studies so that it can more productively fulfill its promise to understand the dynamics of shared meaning-making. I argue for theoretical and, hence, methodological, advancement toward a more precise vocabulary for describing the movement of meaning over time and space and between persons as they engage with resources and each other in order to fix and revise shared interpretations. Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of narrative, I describe some of the central tenets of this “back to the phenomenon” approach to social memory.
{"title":"Memory is an interpretive action","authors":"B. Schiff","doi":"10.1075/ni.22020.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22020.sch","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this essay, I aim to shore up the epistemological foundations of memory studies so that it can more\u0000 productively fulfill its promise to understand the dynamics of shared meaning-making. I argue for theoretical and, hence,\u0000 methodological, advancement toward a more precise vocabulary for describing the movement of meaning over time and space and\u0000 between persons as they engage with resources and each other in order to fix and revise shared interpretations. Drawing on the\u0000 conceptual vocabulary of narrative, I describe some of the central tenets of this “back to the phenomenon” approach to social\u0000 memory.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49015916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Discussions of storytelling and narrative have encompassed abstraction in different ways including master narratives (Bamberg, 1997) and storylines (Harré & van Lagenhove, 1998). These discussions, however, have often viewed storytelling and abstraction as a binary distinction, rather than a spectrum where speakers move between different levels of abstraction when recounting experiences. This article argues for a nuanced approach to abstraction in storytelling that considers how specific details of stories – namely, actors, actions, contexts, and time – are excluded or abstracted in the recounting of experience, with a link between increased abstraction and implied moral judgement. The article first outlines the theoretical basis for this argument, and then shows specific examples of abstraction taken from stories about religious experience. Finally, the productive implications of a nuanced view of abstraction are outlined, including for narrative and discourse analysis, for understanding of storytelling and cognition, and for critical analysis of racist language.
{"title":"Abstraction in storytelling","authors":"Stephen Pihlaja","doi":"10.1075/ni.22045.pih","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22045.pih","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Discussions of storytelling and narrative have encompassed abstraction in different ways including master\u0000 narratives (Bamberg, 1997) and storylines (Harré\u0000 & van Lagenhove, 1998). These discussions, however, have often viewed storytelling and abstraction as a binary\u0000 distinction, rather than a spectrum where speakers move between different levels of abstraction when recounting experiences. This\u0000 article argues for a nuanced approach to abstraction in storytelling that considers how specific details of stories – namely,\u0000 actors, actions, contexts, and time – are excluded or abstracted in the recounting of experience, with a link between increased\u0000 abstraction and implied moral judgement. The article first outlines the theoretical basis for this argument, and then shows\u0000 specific examples of abstraction taken from stories about religious experience. Finally, the productive implications of a nuanced\u0000 view of abstraction are outlined, including for narrative and discourse analysis, for understanding of storytelling and cognition,\u0000 and for critical analysis of racist language.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49416849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qingfang Song, Maria C Lent, Dianna Murray-Close, Tong Suo, Qi Wang
This study investigated the associations of narrative processing while recounting a past victimization experience with different forms (i.e., physical and relational) and functions (i.e., reactive vs proactive) of aggressive behavior. Moderating effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity and gender were explored. Two hundred college students participated in a semi-structured laboratory interview about a past victimization event, during which their respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and narrative processing (i.e., perpetrator hostility evaluation, narrative coherence, and positive resolution) were assessed. Participants reported their tendency to engage in aggressive behaviors. Findings indicated that low narrative coherence and high perpetrator hostility evaluation, respectively, in combination with RSA activation, were associated with reactive physical aggression in men but not in women. Perpetrator hostility evaluation was also associated with reactive relational aggression for both men and women. Findings shed critical light on the joint influences of narrative processing, physiological reactivity, and gender in subtypes of aggressive behavior.
{"title":"Narrative processing and the forms and functions of aggressive behavior","authors":"Qingfang Song, Maria C Lent, Dianna Murray-Close, Tong Suo, Qi Wang","doi":"10.1075/ni.22018.son","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22018.son","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study investigated the associations of narrative processing while recounting a past victimization experience\u0000 with different forms (i.e., physical and relational) and functions (i.e., reactive vs proactive) of aggressive behavior.\u0000 Moderating effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity and gender were explored. Two hundred college students participated\u0000 in a semi-structured laboratory interview about a past victimization event, during which their respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)\u0000 and narrative processing (i.e., perpetrator hostility evaluation, narrative coherence, and positive resolution) were assessed.\u0000 Participants reported their tendency to engage in aggressive behaviors. Findings indicated that low narrative coherence and high\u0000 perpetrator hostility evaluation, respectively, in combination with RSA activation, were associated with reactive physical\u0000 aggression in men but not in women. Perpetrator hostility evaluation was also associated with reactive relational aggression for\u0000 both men and women. Findings shed critical light on the joint influences of narrative processing, physiological reactivity, and\u0000 gender in subtypes of aggressive behavior.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41891812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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