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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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
{"title":"In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces, by Susan Beth\u0000 Rottmann","authors":"S. Perrino","doi":"10.1075/ni.20100.per","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20100.per","url":null,"abstract":"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","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41383607","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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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.
{"title":"Small stories in short interactions","authors":"Almut Koester","doi":"10.1075/ni.20064.koe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20064.koe","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study investigates story-telling in naturally-occurring interactions in a care home for older people with\u0000 dementia in England. Stories were told by a range of discourse participants and varied from more relationally-oriented anecdotes\u0000 occurring as part of small talk to more transactionally-oriented narratives embedded into work routines. The main aim of the study\u0000 was to explore narratives as social practice in the interactions of the care staff and to discover what functions they perform in\u0000 their workplace practice and more generally in that of the care home. The analysis focused principally on two primarily\u0000 work-oriented narrative types: “working stories” and “narratives of professional practice”. The findings were that such stories\u0000 performed a range of key functions in the professional practice of the care givers, in particular problem-solving,\u0000 knowledge-sharing and critical evaluation.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43207126","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}
Organisational identity may be understood as the result of communication processes, e.g. in the form of narratives and stories, that continuously intertwine and compete for the right to define the organisation (Boje, 1995; Humle & Frandsen, 2017). This understanding forms the background of the article which analyses the narrative struggles in a local Danish airport whose collective identity was challenged in light of organisational changes that led to a large and dispersed organisation. Combining positioning theory (Davies & Harré, 1990, 1999) with close linguistic analysis, data from a focus group interview are analysed, showing that through stories and narratives, top-management and staff members construct several positions along a cline that make it possible to achieve consensus across organisational levels and divisions. Furthermore, the article argues for analysing participants’ linguistic choices in detail to come closer to how participants do positioning work.
{"title":"Narrating organisational identity","authors":"Lise-Lotte Holmgreen","doi":"10.1075/NI.20113.HOL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NI.20113.HOL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Organisational identity may be understood as the result of communication processes, e.g. in the form of narratives and stories, that continuously intertwine and compete for the right to define the organisation (Boje, 1995; Humle & Frandsen, 2017). This understanding forms the background of the article which analyses the narrative struggles in a local Danish airport whose collective identity was challenged in light of organisational changes that led to a large and dispersed organisation. Combining positioning theory (Davies & Harré, 1990, 1999) with close linguistic analysis, data from a focus group interview are analysed, showing that through stories and narratives, top-management and staff members construct several positions along a cline that make it possible to achieve consensus across organisational levels and divisions. Furthermore, the article argues for analysing participants’ linguistic choices in detail to come closer to how participants do positioning work.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44837053","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 Loseke (2019): Narrative productions of meanings: Exploring the work of stories in social life","authors":"Charlotte L. Wilinsky","doi":"10.1075/NI.21020.WIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NI.21020.WIL","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43277251","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":"Methodology of narrative study","authors":"A. McCabe, Dorien Van De Mieroop","doi":"10.1075/ni.20137.mcc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20137.mcc","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48325076","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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