Organizational studies, as a discipline, has displayed a strong interest in the use of narrative analysis to investigate issues of concern to scholars, such as those around sense-making, communication, politics and power, learning and change, as well as identity and identification (Rhodes & Brown, 2005). However, much, though of course not all, of this research has tended to focus on ‘big’ stories – i.e., “those derived from interviews, clinical encounters, autobiographical writing, and other such interrogative venues” (Freeman, 2006, p.131) – and has paid lit-tle attention to small stories – i.e., “those derived from everyday social exchanges” (Freeman, 2006, p.131; see also Georgakopoulou, 2006). Moreover, these ‘big’ stories are often analysed as decontextualized end-products (the outcome). Conse-quently, the fine-grained detail of the exact formulation of stories (the medium), which necessarily has an impact on the narrative as product, is often overlooked. Furthermore, other aspects of the storytelling activity, such as the extent to which narratives are told in collaboration with others – ranging from interviewers for ‘big’ stories to co-tellers for ‘small’ stories – and questions around why particular narratives are told at one particular point in time and place rather than at another tend to receive much less attention (though see Clifton et al., 2020). Yet, we argue that these aspects of storytelling are particularly deserving of academic attention. This is because they enable researchers to obtain a much more multi-facetted insight into how narratives are produced and how they work in the specific context in which they occur. This is exactly what a narrative as social practice-approach capitalizes on, namely the actual in situ telling of the stories (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008). It has a clear emphasis on the analysis of stories as sequentially organized dialogic constructions which are embedded in the local business of the storytellers and which are rhetorically
{"title":"Narratives as social practice in organisational contexts","authors":"Dorien Van De Mieroop, J. Clifton, S. Schnurr","doi":"10.1075/ni.21090.van","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21090.van","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational studies, as a discipline, has displayed a strong interest in the use of narrative analysis to investigate issues of concern to scholars, such as those around sense-making, communication, politics and power, learning and change, as well as identity and identification (Rhodes & Brown, 2005). However, much, though of course not all, of this research has tended to focus on ‘big’ stories – i.e., “those derived from interviews, clinical encounters, autobiographical writing, and other such interrogative venues” (Freeman, 2006, p.131) – and has paid lit-tle attention to small stories – i.e., “those derived from everyday social exchanges” (Freeman, 2006, p.131; see also Georgakopoulou, 2006). Moreover, these ‘big’ stories are often analysed as decontextualized end-products (the outcome). Conse-quently, the fine-grained detail of the exact formulation of stories (the medium), which necessarily has an impact on the narrative as product, is often overlooked. Furthermore, other aspects of the storytelling activity, such as the extent to which narratives are told in collaboration with others – ranging from interviewers for ‘big’ stories to co-tellers for ‘small’ stories – and questions around why particular narratives are told at one particular point in time and place rather than at another tend to receive much less attention (though see Clifton et al., 2020). Yet, we argue that these aspects of storytelling are particularly deserving of academic attention. This is because they enable researchers to obtain a much more multi-facetted insight into how narratives are produced and how they work in the specific context in which they occur. This is exactly what a narrative as social practice-approach capitalizes on, namely the actual in situ telling of the stories (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008). It has a clear emphasis on the analysis of stories as sequentially organized dialogic constructions which are embedded in the local business of the storytellers and which are rhetorically","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59028618","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}
Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some concepts developed in social scientific narrative studies could provide cultural memory scholars with a precise and less metaphorical vocabulary to understand how people make sense of non-autobiographical pasts in different interactional contexts. In particular, the article focusses on how positioning theory and unexplained events in narrative pre-construction assist analysis of the flexibility of the remembering self in everyday interaction. The examples in this article concern narrations of the Second World War and Holocaust gathered during fieldwork in the contemporary town of Auschwitz in Poland.
{"title":"Cultural memories and their re-actualizations","authors":"Thomas Van de Putte","doi":"10.1075/ni.21027.van","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21027.van","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Memory studies has, in only a few decades, produced insights in two inter-related processes. First, memory\u0000 scholars theorized how representations of the past become socially shared. Secondly, they theorized how these cultural and\u0000 collective memories circulate and are being re-actualized in different contexts. But critiques of the field have targeted the\u0000 metaphorical and reified nature of cultural memory concepts. This article argues that some concepts developed in social scientific\u0000 narrative studies could provide cultural memory scholars with a precise and less metaphorical vocabulary to understand how people\u0000 make sense of non-autobiographical pasts in different interactional contexts. In particular, the article focusses on how\u0000 positioning theory and unexplained events in narrative pre-construction assist analysis of the flexibility of the remembering self\u0000 in everyday interaction. The examples in this article concern narrations of the Second World War and Holocaust gathered during\u0000 fieldwork in the contemporary town of Auschwitz in Poland.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45654978","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 examines the use of ungendered third person Chinese pronoun ta in digital first-and-third person voiced discourses (i.e. small stories). The study asks what implications the script choice ta, as opposed to gendered 他 ta ‘he’ and 她 ta ‘she’, has for audience design and the facilitation of character empathy. The study draws on 131 digital texts from celebrity verified accounts on social media platform Sina Weibo in October 2015. From a Discourse Analytical perspective focused on deixis relative to the notion of empathy in storytelling, the study investigates emergent practices which involve the orthographic manipulation of gender. The study proposes that ta is an interpersonal resource whose deictic properties as a non-standard spelling are exploited as a property of audience design to facilitate an appeal to empathy. This facilitation is advanced by the script choice which offers a wider scope of reference, and thus targets a wider audience.
{"title":"Ta as an emergent language practice of audience design in CMC","authors":"Kerry Sluchinski","doi":"10.1075/ni.21049.slu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21049.slu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines the use of ungendered third person Chinese pronoun ta in digital first-and-third\u0000 person voiced discourses (i.e. small stories). The study asks what implications the script choice ta, as opposed to\u0000 gendered 他 ta ‘he’ and 她 ta ‘she’, has for audience design and the facilitation\u0000 of character empathy. The study draws on 131 digital texts from celebrity verified accounts on social media platform Sina Weibo in October\u0000 2015. From a Discourse Analytical perspective focused on deixis relative to the notion of empathy in storytelling, the study investigates\u0000 emergent practices which involve the orthographic manipulation of gender. The study proposes that ta is an interpersonal\u0000 resource whose deictic properties as a non-standard spelling are exploited as a property of audience design to facilitate an appeal to\u0000 empathy. This facilitation is advanced by the script choice which offers a wider scope of reference, and thus targets a wider audience.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41396646","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 Andrus (2021): Narratives of Domestic Violence: Policing, Identity, and Indexicality","authors":"S. Perrino","doi":"10.1075/ni.21079.per","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21079.per","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44069133","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}
Navigating the labour market in a new context can be a challenge for any migrant, and particularly so for former refugees, who are often unable to find employment appropriate for their qualification and experience levels. This study takes an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach to exploring how three former refugees navigate employability in narrative, from the social constructionist perspective of employable identities, emergent from and negotiated within discourse. The study focuses specifically on the participants’ discursive navigation of their various (Bourdieusian) social and cultural capital and its importance to labour market performance. Evident in the data are the difficulties of translating – or having recognised – a lifetime’s accumulation of capital, often rendered worthless upon migration. Such challenges impact upon forced migrants’ ability to successfully enact employability, and subsequently upon their imagined (future) identities. This research highlights former refugees’ complex challenges involved with successful navigation of employability in a new context.
{"title":"Employable identities","authors":"Emily Greenbank","doi":"10.1075/ni.19103.gre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.19103.gre","url":null,"abstract":"Navigating the labour market in a new context can be a challenge for any migrant, and particularly so for former refugees,\u0000 who are often unable to find employment appropriate for their qualification and experience levels. This study takes an Interactional\u0000 Sociolinguistic approach to exploring how three former refugees navigate employability in narrative, from the social constructionist\u0000 perspective of employable identities, emergent from and negotiated within discourse. The study focuses specifically on the\u0000 participants’ discursive navigation of their various (Bourdieusian) social and cultural capital and its importance to labour market\u0000 performance. Evident in the data are the difficulties of translating – or having recognised – a lifetime’s accumulation of capital, often\u0000 rendered worthless upon migration. Such challenges impact upon forced migrants’ ability to successfully enact employability, and\u0000 subsequently upon their imagined (future) identities. This research highlights former refugees’ complex challenges involved with successful\u0000 navigation of employability in a new context.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48633255","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 applies sociocultural narrative theory and method to integrate children’s perspectives into research on classroom climate. Sociocultural narrative theory explains how individuals use expressive genres to make sense of environments, how they fit, and what they would like to change. This study incorporates such theory and method into a qualitative research design, applying quantitative analysis techniques to understand trends in student attention and expression. The main goal of this study is to examine whether and how students enact and express socioemotional and spatiotemporal (climate) sensitivities with their use of regular narrative elements. This study employs plot and character analyses to understand 22 sixth graders’ narrations of best and worst classroom experiences. These analyses reveal diverse patterns of focus on classroom events. Differences in the young narrators’ attention highlight areas for ongoing inquiry, with implications for mixed methods studies of classroom climate and related developmental research.
{"title":"Pre-adolescents narrate classroom experience","authors":"Isabella Fante, C. Daiute","doi":"10.1075/ni.20054.fan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20054.fan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study applies sociocultural narrative theory and method to integrate children’s perspectives into research on classroom climate. Sociocultural narrative theory explains how individuals use expressive genres to make sense of environments, how they fit, and what they would like to change. This study incorporates such theory and method into a qualitative research design, applying quantitative analysis techniques to understand trends in student attention and expression. The main goal of this study is to examine whether and how students enact and express socioemotional and spatiotemporal (climate) sensitivities with their use of regular narrative elements. This study employs plot and character analyses to understand 22 sixth graders’ narrations of best and worst classroom experiences. These analyses reveal diverse patterns of focus on classroom events. Differences in the young narrators’ attention highlight areas for ongoing inquiry, with implications for mixed methods studies of classroom climate and related developmental research.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44332919","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}
J. P. Crowley, A. Denes, Ambyre L. P. Ponivas, Shana Makos, Joseph Whitt
Research has identified that writing can help individuals find forgiveness for their romantic partners in the wake of relational transgressions, but little is known about the actual narrative components that bring about changes in forgiveness. The current study sought to investigate the narrative components that contribute to month-long changes in forgiveness for romantic partners who have recently experienced a relational transgression. It also sought to uncover emotional and biological mechanisms that can help account for the associations between narrative components and forgiveness outcomes. The results revealed components of narratives that may both contribute to an increase and decrease in forgiveness over the course of one-month. Additionally, emotional expression and testosterone were identified as potential mediators and moderators of the associations between narrative components and changes in forgiveness.
{"title":"Forgiveness through Writing","authors":"J. P. Crowley, A. Denes, Ambyre L. P. Ponivas, Shana Makos, Joseph Whitt","doi":"10.1075/ni.20017.cro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20017.cro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Research has identified that writing can help individuals find forgiveness for their romantic partners in the wake of relational transgressions, but little is known about the actual narrative components that bring about changes in forgiveness. The current study sought to investigate the narrative components that contribute to month-long changes in forgiveness for romantic partners who have recently experienced a relational transgression. It also sought to uncover emotional and biological mechanisms that can help account for the associations between narrative components and forgiveness outcomes. The results revealed components of narratives that may both contribute to an increase and decrease in forgiveness over the course of one-month. Additionally, emotional expression and testosterone were identified as potential mediators and moderators of the associations between narrative components and changes in forgiveness.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43101332","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}
Gavin Brookes, Tony McEnery, M. McGlashan, Gillian Smith, Mark Wilkinson
This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England. Narratives are pervasive in this context, being present more than absent in the patients’ comments, but are particularly prominent in comments which evaluate care negatively. Evaluations can be accomplished through all the structural elements of the narrative, including in combination with one another. However, the presence and ordering of these elements does not seem to be influenced by the type of evaluation given (i.e. positive, negative or more neutral). As mediated social practice, the narratives are shaped by the technological affordances and social dynamics of this context, for instance in the placement of particular structural elements and the design of narratives for particular “imagined” audiences.
{"title":"Narrative evaluation in patient feedback","authors":"Gavin Brookes, Tony McEnery, M. McGlashan, Gillian Smith, Mark Wilkinson","doi":"10.1075/ni.20098.bro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20098.bro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The\u0000 analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and\u0000 Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England. Narratives are pervasive in this\u0000 context, being present more than absent in the patients’ comments, but are particularly prominent in comments which evaluate care\u0000 negatively. Evaluations can be accomplished through all the structural elements of the narrative, including in combination with\u0000 one another. However, the presence and ordering of these elements does not seem to be influenced by the type of evaluation given\u0000 (i.e. positive, negative or more neutral). As mediated social practice, the narratives are shaped by the technological affordances and\u0000 social dynamics of this context, for instance in the placement of particular structural elements and the design of narratives for\u0000 particular “imagined” audiences.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42076911","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 article reviews In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces $135.00/£99.00$29.95978-1-78920-269-4978-1-78920-270-0
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HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience narratives produced in EW, and examine whether good EW outcome cases (in terms of well-being improvement) would be characterized with different types of narratives than poor outcome cases. Results show that texts produced by good outcome cases presented more emotional involvement than poor cases. Furthermore, good cases presented with a more complex and well-integrated narrative of their story than poor cases. It is suggested that good outcome participants’ writings are more emotionally involved, integrated and personal. Our findings emphasize the importance of context-sensitive and function-oriented accounts of EW texts.
{"title":"Emotional engagement in expressive writing","authors":"Daphna Sabo Mordechay, Z. Eviatar, Bracha Nir","doi":"10.1075/NI.20051.SAB","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NI.20051.SAB","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge\u0000 in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality\u0000 of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify\u0000 emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience narratives produced in EW, and examine\u0000 whether good EW outcome cases (in terms of well-being improvement) would be characterized with different types of narratives than\u0000 poor outcome cases. Results show that texts produced by good outcome cases presented more emotional involvement than poor cases.\u0000 Furthermore, good cases presented with a more complex and well-integrated narrative of their story than poor cases. It is\u0000 suggested that good outcome participants’ writings are more emotionally involved, integrated and personal. Our findings emphasize\u0000 the importance of context-sensitive and function-oriented accounts of EW texts.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44567955","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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