Schiffrin Deborah et al. (Editors). Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life

Georgetown University Press, 2010. — ix, 219 pages. — (Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series). — ISBN: 978-1-58901-629-3.Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history.In Telling Stories leading scholars illustrate how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media, marketing, and public relations. They analyze a variety of topics from the narrative construction of self and identity to the telling of stories in different media and the roles that small and big life stories play in everyday social interactions and institutions. These new reflections on the theory and analysis of narrative offer the latest tools to researchers in the fields of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.Where Should I Begin?
The Remediation of Storytelling: Narrative Performance on Early Commercial Sound Recordings
Narrative, Culture, and Mind
Positioning as a Metagrammar for Discursive Story Lines
“Ay Ay Vienen Estos Juareños”: On the Positioning of Selves through Code Switching by Second-Generation Immigrant College Students
A Tripartite Self-Construction Model of Identity
Narratives of Reputation: Layerings of Social and Spatial Identities
Identity Building through Narratives on a Tulu Call-in TV Show
Blank Check for Biography? Openness and Ingenuity in the Management of the “Who-Am-I Question” and What Life Stories Actually May Not Be Good For
Reflection and Self-Disclosure from the Small Stories Perspective: A Study of Identity Claims in Interview and Conversational Data
Negotiating Deviance: Identity, Trajectories, and Norms in a Graffitist’s Interview Narrative
Interaction and Narrative Structure in Dementia
Concurrent and Intervening Actions during Storytelling in Family “Ceremonial” Dinners
Truth and Authorship in Textual Trajectories
Legitimation and the Heteroglossic Nature of Closing Arguments
Multimodal Storytelling and Identity Construction in Graphic Narratives
The Role of Style Shifting in the Functions and Purposes of Storytelling: Detective Stories in Anime