We Knew That’s It: Retelling the Turning Point of a Narrative

Schiffrin, Deborah

doi:10.1177/14614456030054005

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“…In narrations of Holocaust experiences repeated across decades, for example, the events and their temporal order were highly stable, but were increasingly interpreted, historically contextualised, and evaluated from a present point of view (Schiff, 2005;Schiffrin, 2003;cf. Goblirsch, 2005).…”

Section: Re-narrating Traumatic and Everyday Emotional Experiencesmentioning

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Retelling everyday emotional events: Condensation, distancing, and closure

Habermas

Berger

2011

Cognition & Emotion

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Narratives of emotional experiences are widely assumed to reflect how well the speaker has coped with them. Some cross-sectional studies have suggested that well-being and absence of psychopathology correlate with more elaborate and coherent narratives of negative events. Other studies, on the other hand, suggest that retelling and coping render narratives shorter, more cognitive, and explicitly evaluative. To test this latter hypothesis, 30 young women narrated five events eliciting anger, sadness, anxiety, pride and happiness from the past week, and retold the same events three months later. After three months, narratives contained fewer attempts to solve the complication, and evaluations became more global and impersonal. Negative narratives were framed better and re-evaluated positively. Unexpectedly, narrative clauses did not decrease, nor did evaluations shift from past to present. Ways to better differentiate effects of memory and retelling from mere effects of coping are suggested.

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Section: Re-narrating Traumatic and Everyday Emotional Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retelling everyday emotional events: Condensation, distancing, and closure

Habermas

Berger

2011

Cognition & Emotion

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“…Analyzing the changes and consistencies from one telling to the next is a point of entry into understanding how our perspectives and evaluations of life experiences can change over time, or how aspects of identity are maintained and/or adjusted throughout the life course (Schiff et al, 2006). Along with the passage of time in the teller's autobiography, other factors can influence the structure and variation of retold narratives, such as shifts in audience, previous tellings, local interactional contexts, or even changes in the larger cultural context in which an individual's life story is embedded (Schiffrin, 2003).…”

Section: Section 2 Retelling Narratives In Life Writingmentioning

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<B>Embedded stories and the life story</B><BR> Retellings in a memoir and perzine

Stockburger¹

2008

Narrative Inquiry

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This article explores how tellers, more specifically life writers, embed small stories within larger narratives of significant episodes in their lives. I analyze the way in which a life writer, Ayun Halliday, embeds two smaller stories about ordinary experiences from her own childhood into a lengthier narrative about her daughter's first case of head lice. The data set includes two versions of the lice narrative: one version appears in the writer's motherhood memoir (The Big Rumpus) published by Seal Press in 2002, and a later version appears in the writer's self-published perzine (The East Village Inky) in 2004. I analyze how the embedded story-worlds are presented differently in each context by focusing on openings and closings and level of detail in referrals and event clauses. Studying changes in retellings is one way of unpacking the role of embedded stories in the construction of larger ones. Ultimately, I make the point that both embedded stories play a role in Ayun's larger discursive move in the lice narrative to share the burden of her daughter's stigma by positioning herself both within a set of mother figures from her family biography and against a broader cultural backdrop of big "D" discourses (Gee, 1999) about good (or bad) parenting.

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“…I recorded how participants integrated images of France and 'Frenchness' into their own autobiographical accounts through constructing points of sameness and difference which were expressed as temporal and spatial 'turning points' (Bruner, 2001;Nelson, 1994;Schiffrin, 2003). The learning language autobiographies I analysed drew on shared cultural repertoires of the appeal of French, repertoires which may be subconscious but which underpin the passion for learning French as an autobiographical identity project.…”

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Stories of Frenchness: becoming a Francophile

Coffey

2010

Language and Intercultural Communication

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This paper reports on life-story accounts used to gain insights into the symbolic value language learners attach to French. The concept of 'interpretative repertoires' is used to show how participants situate personal narratives in broader cultural discourses (a 'Francophile repertoire') to construct their experience of Frenchness. Data from three life narrative case studies Á British adults who have studied French to a high level Á illustrate how situated repertoires are circulated and reproduced. This type of analytical approach can extend our understanding of how engagement with 'prestige' languages such as French is inscribed in particular forms of cultural capital.Cet article examine l'analyse des récits autobiographiques pour mettre en relief les valeurs symboliques attachées à l'apprentissage de la langue française. Le concept des «répertoires interprétatifs» a été utilisé afin de montrer la façon dont les récits personnels se situent dans les discours culturels plus répandus (un «répertoire francophile») pour construire l'expérience de la francité. Des récits venant de trois études de cas (adultes d'origine Britannique ayant étudié le français jusqu'à un niveau supérieur) illustrent comment ces répertoires peuvent circuler et se reproduire dans le vécu des individus. Cette approche analytique du discours permet d'approfondir notre conception des rapports que l'on peut avoir avec les langues étrangères, d'autant plus celles comme le français dites de prestige dont la connaissance est associée à des formes de capital culturel.

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We Knew That’s It: Retelling the Turning Point of a Narrative

Cited by 41 publications

References 17 publications

Retelling everyday emotional events: Condensation, distancing, and closure

Retelling everyday emotional events: Condensation, distancing, and closure

<B>Embedded stories and the life story</B><BR> Retellings in a memoir and perzine

Stories of Frenchness: becoming a Francophile

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