Couples sharing stories

Mandelbaum, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/01463378709369678

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“…Goodwin, 2007) and several analysts have focused on 'personal relationship' topics explicitly. For example, Mandelbaum (1987Mandelbaum ( , 2003 and Pomerantz and Mandelbaum (2005) have investigated the way 'coupleness' is displayed in collaboratively built narratives, as well as how people make relevant and hold each other accountable for membership of particular relationship categories (see also Benwell & Stokoe, 2006;Fishman, 1978;Staske, 1996;Stokoe, 2008). In a series of studies of 'Relate' marriage guidance counselling interaction, Edwards (1994;1995; showed how event descriptions may be 'scripted' in ways that characterize parties' motivations and dispositions for doing things and manage blame and accountability for those events.…”

Section: Speed-dating As An Empirical Topicmentioning

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“Have You Been Married, or …?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction

Stokoe

2010

Research on Language & Social Interaction

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Studies of personal relationships have often been conducted in the laboratory, on the self-report questionnaire or in the interview. In contrast, this paper studies relationships via a corpus of thirty British 'speed-dating' encounters between 30-45 year old heterosexual couples, in which talk about previous relationships was pervasively relevant. The analysis examines how talk about prior relationships, and current relationship status, was occasioned and accounted for. The first section shows that, in the overall structure of the date, talk about relationship histories was located after talk about other matters (e.g., occupation, place of residence). Second, relationship history questions contained design features for managing the delicacy of answering them (e.g., trail-off 'or' turn endings), as well as paired categorial items (e.g., a question about 'children' was answered in terms of one's 'marital' status and vice versa). In the final section, the analysis shows that and how participants treat some relationship histories as more accountable than others (e.g., being 'never married'). The analysis revealed a more general set of accountabilities: of being 'single', of being previously unsuccessful in relationships, of being unable to meet people in 'natural' settings, and, therefore, for attending speed-dating events. Overall, the paper demonstrates the importance of examining the richly detailed brief encounters of social life, in order to better understand people's understandings of, troubles with, and goals for their personal relationships.

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Section: Speed-dating As An Empirical Topicmentioning

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“Have You Been Married, or …?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction

Stokoe

2010

Research on Language & Social Interaction

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“…Mandelbaum (2010), for instance, shows how, through resistance to shared family reminiscing during a holiday mealtime, a family's teenage son demonstrates and tries out his growing autonomy. Her earlier research (Mandelbaum 1987) demonstrating how members of couples construct their coupledom through narrative serves as one source of inspiration for the sample analysis that I present here.…”

Section: Sample Analysis: Constructing Family Through Narrativementioning

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Handbook of Narrative Analysis

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Herman²,

Vervaeck³

2006

The Modern Language Review

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“…For instance, it has been found that casting an interlocutor as a story recipient increases the requirement for showing alignment (i.e. understanding of) with the type of activity and affiliation with the speaker's stance on the reported experience and feelings (see Jefferson 1978;Lerner 1992;Mandelbaum 1987). This heuristic dictates a dual focus on online postings and responses to them without however predetermining what from each of the multi-layered ways of telling, sites and tellers will be of analytical importance and how their relations will be configured.…”

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“…Such knowing allusive references are the main way in which specific alignment is provided and in particular affiliation of the type that we find documented in 'with' type of relationships. Mandelbaum (1987), for instance, has shown how couples signal their withrelationship interactionally, through collaboratively undertaken actions when telling a story. These range from collaborative completions to monitoring the story for accuracy.…”

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From Narrating the Self to Posting Self(ies): A Small Stories Approach to Selfies

Georgakopoulou

2016

Open Linguistics

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Abstract:Selfies have by now earned a prominent place in the diverse forms of self-representation on social media. In sociolinguistic terms, they have been undergoing a process of enregisterment (Agha 2005), as attested to in moral panics in public discussions and in a developing selfie-related lexicon. A phenomenon worthy of study then, yet largely unexplored, particularly within discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives on identities (possibly due to the selfie's visual nature). My aim in this article is to venture (and justify) a 'claiming' of selfies by small stories. Selfies present the semiotic hallmarks of small stories, as I will show, and so they constitute valuable 'data', the study of which can benefit from small stories inquiry into genres as communicative and social practices on social media. Small stories apparatus is well-suited to selfie analysis: it has been specifically developed to account for genres that challenge the assumptions and modes of analysis of conventional narrative and life writing studies. Using data of selfie postings by adolescent women on FB, I will show how within a small stories framework, far from being narcissistic expressions of 'ideal selves', selfies emerge as contextualized and co-constructed presentations of self, shaped by media affordances.

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Couples sharing stories

Cited by 115 publications

References 11 publications

“Have You Been Married, or …?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction

“Have You Been Married, or …?”: Eliciting and Accounting for Relationship Histories in Speed-Dating Interaction

Handbook of Narrative Analysis

From Narrating the Self to Posting Self(ies): A Small Stories Approach to Selfies

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