Analyzing Narrative

Author: Anna De Fina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502581
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

Analyzing Narrative Reality

Author: Jaber F. Gubrium
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412952190
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Considers both the texts and everyday contexts of the storytelling process with accompanying guidelines for analysis and illustrations from empirical material.

Analyzing Narratives in Social Networks

Author: Zvi Lotker
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030682994
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
This book uses literature as a wrench to pry open social networks and to ask different questions than have been asked about social networks previously. The book emphasizes the story-telling aspect of social networks, as well as the connection between narrative and social networks by incorporating narrative, dynamic networks, and time. Thus, it constructs a bridge between literature, digital humanities, and social networks. This book is a pioneering work that attempts to express social and philosophic constructs in mathematical terms. The material used to test the algorithms is texts intended for performance, such as plays, film scripts, and radio plays; mathematical representations of the texts, or “literature networks”, are then used to analyze the social networks found in the respective texts. By using literature networks and their accompanying narratives, along with their supporting analyses, this book allows for a novel approach to social network analysis.

Analyzing Field Reality

Author: Jaber F. Gubrium
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Analyzing Field Reality provides a new way of thinking about the analysis of fieldwork that will aid researchers in many disciplines. The book is not about the mechanics of fieldwork, but about how to convey the field's everyday realities and its members' common philosophical engagement -- it provides the researcher with a methodology for understanding meaning in the field.

Using Narrative in Research

Author: Christine Bold
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446291375
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Using Narrative in Research by Christine Bold provides an accessible, easy-to-understand guide to the theory and practice of the use of narrative in research. Written with those new to narrative in mind, this book will enable readers to understand the origins of narrative traditions and to plan and carry out a narrative study of their own. Christine Bold′s book examines narrative approaches across a range of research contexts and disciplinary boundaries and will be of equal value to practitioners and academic students and researchers alike. Drawing on a range of real-life examples of narrative studies, Using Narrative in Research will enable readers to provide a sound justification for adopting a narrative-based approach and will help them to write about and write up narrative in research. This book examines: • How we design research projects with a narrative approach • Ethics • Narrative thinking • Collecting narrative data • Analysing narrative data • Representation in narrative analysis • Reporting and writing up narrative research.

Narrative Research

Author: Amia Lieblich
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761910435
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication.

Varieties of Narrative Analysis

Author: James A. Holstein
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412987555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Offers practical illustrations from different disciplines and perspectives, showing how researchers from various backgrounds deal with narrative data.

The Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Author: Anna De Fina
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119052149
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 483

Book Description
Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page

Narrative Analysis

Author: Catherine Kohler Riessman
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1452208646
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
Students, academics and professionals in qualitative research methods, interpersonal communication, sociolinguistics, sociology and anthropology

Narrative Analysis

Author: Colette Daiute
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761927980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Narrative Analysis is organized around three approaches or "readings." Literary Readings focus on aesthetic, metaphorical, and other literary qualities inherent to narrative approaches. Social-Relational Readings build upon the idea that narrative discourse is personal but also echoes political, economic, and other material relationships in the environment. Readings through the Force of History explain how narrators come to know themselves and their worlds in terms of and in spite of the received explanations of time and place. Working in a range of ethnic, geographic, generational, class, and institutional communities, the authors demonstrate how they have used narrative inquiry to explore development in challenging social contexts.