Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse (2003), and co-editor of many volumes, among which Discourse and Identity (2006) with M. Bamberg and D. Schiffrin. She has published widely on topics related to migrant and transnational communities, superdiversity, identities, and narrative. Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, King's College, London, UK. She has developed small stories research, a paradigm for the analysis of everyday life stories and their role in the (re)formation of social relations of intimacy and in youth and gender identity politics. Her latest research is on the mobilization of small stories on social media as part of the ERC project, 'Life-writing of the moment: The sharing and updating self on social media'. Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou are longstanding collaborators on narrative research. In addition to this Handbook, they have co-authored Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (2012) and they are currently co-editing The Handbook of Discourse Studies. They are also co-editors (with Ruth Page) of 'Narrative, Interaction and Discourse'.

• Transcription Conventions viiNotes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Anna De Fina and Alexandra GeorgakopoulouPart I Narrative Foundations: Knowledge, Learning, and Experience 191 Narrative as a Mode of Understanding: Method, Theory, Praxis 21Mark Freeman2 Story Ownership and Entitlement 38Amy Shuman3 Narrating and Arguing: From Plausibility to Local Moves 57Isolda E. Carranza4 Narrative, Cognition, and Socialization 76Masahiko Minami5 Narrative Knowledging in Second Language Teaching and Learning Contexts 97Gary BarkhuizenPart II Time‐Space Organization 1176 Narrative and Space/Time 119Mike Baynham7 Chronotopes: Time and Space in Oral Narrative 140Sabina Perrino8 Narratives Across Speech Events 160Stanton Wortham and Catherine R. Rhodes9 Analyzing Narrative Genres 178Matti HyvärinenPart III Narrative Interaction 19510 Narrative as Talk‐in‐Interaction 197Charles Goodwin11 Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Reflexivity and Narrative Research 219Catherine Kohler Riessman12 The Role of the Researcher in Interview Narratives 239Stef Slembrouck13 Small Stories Research: Methods – Analysis – Outreach 255Alexandra GeorgakopoulouPart IV Stories in Social Practices 27314 Narratives and Stories in Organizational Life 275Yiannis Gabriel15 Narrative, Institutional Processes, and Gendered Inequalities 293Susan Ehrlich16 Narratives in Family Contexts 311Cynthia Gordon17 The Narrative Dimensions of Social Media Storytelling: Options for Linearity and Tellership 329Ruth PagePart V Performing Self, Positioning Others 34918 Narrative and Identities 351Anna De Fina19 Positioning 369Arnulf Deppermann20 Narrative and Cultural Identities: Performing and Aligning with Figures of Personhood 388Michele Koven21 Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives 408Dorien Van De Mieroop22 Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives 429Emily HeaveyIndex 447