The Handbook of Narrative Analysis

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. The collection includes chapters that exhibit the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research, as well as essays that address topics traditionally shaped and influenced by narrative inquiry, such as researcher reflexivity, embodiment, story ownership, and chronotopic configurations. Organized thematically to provide a guide for approaching the study of narrative without prescribing a rigid framework for analysis, the Handbook strikes an ideal balance between theoretical framing and the demonstration of specific analytical approaches. Edited by two leading authorities on narrative research, and pioneers of the practice–based approach to narrative analysis, this Handbook will be an essential resource for anyone interested in better understanding the stories we tell and why we tell them.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou PART 1: NARRATIVE FOUNDATIONS: KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE 1. Narrative as a Mode of Understanding: Method, Theory, Practice Mark Freeman 2. Story Ownership and Entitlement Amy Shuman 3. Narrating and Arguing: From Plausibility to Local Moves Isolda E. Carranza 4. Narrative, Cognition, and Socialization Masahiko Minami 5. Narrative Knowledging in Second Language Teaching and Learning Contexts Gary Barkhuizen   PART II: TIME–SPACE–ORGANIZATION 6. Narrative and Space/Time Mike Baynham 7. Chronotopes: Time and Space in Oral Narrative Sabina Perrino 8. Narratives across Speech Events Stanton Wortham & Catherine R. Rhodes 9. Analyzing Narrative Genres Matti Hyvärinen   PART III: NARRATIVE INTERACTION   10. Narrative as Talk–in–Interaction Charles Goodwin 11. Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Reflexivity and Narrative Research Catherine Kohler Riessman 12. The Role of the Researcher in Interview Narratives Stef Slembrouck 13. Small Stories Research: Methods—Analysis—Outreach Alexandra Georgakopoulou   PART IV: STORIES IN SOCIAL PRACTICES 14. Narratives and Stories in Organizational Life Yiannis Gabriel 15. Narrative, Institutional Processes and Gendered Inequalities Susan Ehrlich 16. Narratives in Family Contexts Cynthia Gordon 17. The Narrative Dimensions of Social Media Storytelling: Options for Linearity and Tellership Ruth Page   PART V: PERFORMING SELF, POSITIONING OTHERS 18. Narrative and Identities Anna De Fina 19. Positioning Arnulf Deppermann 20. Narrative and Cultural Identities: Performing and Aligning with Figures of Personhood Michele Koven 21. Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives Dorien Van De Mieroop 22. Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives Emily Heavey   Index

Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse (2003), co–author, with Alexandra Georgakopoulou, of Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (2012), 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, identities, and narrative. Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics at King’s College, London. She has published 11 books including Small Stories, Interaction and Identities (2007) and Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (2011, with Anna De Fina) and is the author of over 70 peer–reviewed articles.