Narratives in action : a strategy for research and analysis /

This work tells how narrative self-construction happens in part through the interactional power of narrative discourse, as narrators enact characteristic types of social events, with their audiences, while telling their stories.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wortham, Stanton, 1963- (Author)
Other Authors: Gergen, Kenneth J. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2001]
Series:Counseling and development series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Kenneth J. Gergen
  • 1. Narrating the Self
  • 2. A Dialogic Approach to Discourse
  • 3. Dialogue, Mediation, and Emergence in Narrative
  • 4. Dialogic Analysis of an Autobiographical Narrative
  • 5. Narrative Self-Construction and the Nature of the Self
  • 6. Implications.