Emotion and Discourse in L2 Narrative Research

Matthew T. Prior is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. His research interests include emotion and other socio-psychological dimensions of second language learning and use, multilingualism and identity, transcultural belonging, discursive constructionist approaches (narrative, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, membership categorization analysis), and qualitative methodologies.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Getting EmotionalChapter 2. Constructing DiscourseChapter 3. Telling and RememberingChapter 4. Inviting Emotional TellingsChapter 5. Eliciting FeelingsChapter 6. (Re)Formulating EmotionalityChapter 7. Managing Emotionality and DistressChapter 8. Being ‘Negative’Chapter 9. Reflecting Back, Moving ForwardReferences

Incisive, engaging, and thoughtful, this book deeply interrogates the role that emotions play in doing narrative research, and serves as an authoritative guide to how emotionality might be examined in interview studies. Well-illustrated with examples, it issues a strong challenge to interviewers to reflect and enact reflexivity. A pleasure to read, this book is essential reading for qualitative researchers.