Low-Narrativity Narratives and Argumentation

Carranza, Isolda E.

doi:10.1075/ni.8.2.04car

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“…Many scholars have noted that, contrary to expectation, the canonical narrative is not very common in everyday talk and that a great deal of narrative types escape the rigid principles of temporal juncture, tellability (defined as the recounting of unusual or exceptional events), and evaluation (seen as basically the work of the teller). Thus, scholars have pointed to the existence of habitual narratives (Carranza, 1998;Baynham, 2006), hypothetical stories (Georgakopoulou, 2003) cyclical tales (Brockmeier, 2000), anecdotes (Holmes, 2006), etc. They have noted that many narratives are co-constructed, co-evaluated, that they are modified through interaction with audiences, etc.…”

Section: Narrative and Narrative Genrementioning

confidence: 97%

Narratives in interview — The case of accounts

Fina

2009

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Narratives told in interview have become a central tool of data collection and analysis in a variety of disciplines within the social sciences. However, many researchers, particularly those who embrace a conversational analytic or ethnomethodological approach (see among others Schegloff, 1997; Goodwin, 1997), regard them as artificial and oppose them to naturally occurring stories, which they see as much richer and interesting sources of data and analysis. In this paper, I argue that the criticism against interview narratives has been justified by the lack of attention that many narrative analysts have shown towards the interview as a truly interactional context. However, I also point to some shortcomings that derive from this opposition between naturally occurring and interview narratives and to an alternative framework in which the stress is not on the kind of narrative data used for the analysis, but rather on the kind of narrative analysis that should be adopted. I argue that our methodologies of analysis cannot fail to take into account the way narratives shape and are shaped by the different contexts in which they are embedded and propose the study of narrative genres as a way of looking at the reciprocal influence of narratives and story-telling contexts. I illustrate this point looking at accounts as a genre.

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Section: Narrative and Narrative Genrementioning

confidence: 97%

Narratives in interview — The case of accounts

Fina

2009

187

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“…In speech, narrative can be incomplete or interspersed with other modes of communication such as argumentation (Georgakopoulou and Goutsos, 2000). Narratives may not always contain all the elements outlined above, though the more that are present, the more 'story-like' a unit of discourse will appear, and the more 'narrativity' it can be said to possess (Carranza, 1998, Abbott, 2008. They may not always include detailed sequences of events.…”

Section: As Riessman Lamentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Britain a force for good? Investigating British citizens’ narrative understanding of war

Colley

2016

Defence Studies

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It is commonly assumed in the foreign policy literature that narratives are uniquely persuasive and thus integral to obtaining public support for war. Yet empirical research on 'strategic narrative' is often vague on both the concept of narrative and how it persuades.Moreover, the stories publics use to interpret war are rarely examined. This paper offers a novel approach to studying 'from the ground up' the war stories of individual British citizens.It examines public interpretations of war through emplotment: the way people select and link events to create a coherent story. Examining the wars people include and those they silence, it illustrates how a diverse range of citizens morally evaluates Britain's military role, be it as a Force for Good, a Force for Ill or a country Learning from its Mistakes. In doing so the paper offers an alternative methodological approach to studying how individual citizens understand war.

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“…One major way that a proponent can defend a standpoint consists in arguing by narrating. This is achieved, for example, by establishing a relation of either contrast or analogy between two tales (Carranza 1998a(Carranza , 2001a, and this chapter will show that it can be carried out by exploiting a key narrative element, the chain of causality.…”

Section: Narrating and Arguingmentioning

confidence: 99%