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Friday Afternoon

Friday Afternoon. Narrative Analysis: Working with Narratives Exercise 1 <transcript 1> The Davie Hogan Story 4 boys sitting around a campfire, negotiating a story - told by GORDIE --- TRANSCRIPT 1 Exercise 2 <transcript 2> Betty Tells Her Story

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Friday Afternoon

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  1. Friday Afternoon • Narrative Analysis: Working with Narratives • Exercise 1 <transcript 1> • The Davie Hogan Story • 4 boys sitting around a campfire, negotiating a story - told by GORDIE --- TRANSCRIPT 1 • Exercise 2 <transcript 2> • Betty Tells Her Story • Betty tells the story when she lost her dress, but she tells her story twice --- TRANSCRIPT 2

  2. history of narrative research • Narratology • Narratives as tools for cognitive…. Psychology • Narrative in the Social sciences • Across disciplines

  3. Three Kinds of Narrative Approaches to the Study of Self and Identity • Life-Story Approaches • Life-Event Approaches • “Small” Stories • Short narrative accounts • Embedded in every-day interactions • Unnoticed as ‘stories’ by the participants • Unnoticed as ‘narratives’ by researchers • But highly relevant for identity formation processes

  4. Stories about a third person other:the Davie Hogan story “Positioning with Davie Hogan. Stories, Tellings & Identities” Chapter in: C. Daiute & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Narrative analysis: Studying the development of individuals in society.  London: Sage. (2003)

  5. Work with Transcripts - EXERCISE 1 • The Davie Hogan Story • Two versions (written after watching the movie clip) • Version A • Version B • What goes on BEFORE the story • Negotiation of story-telling rights • Negotiation of story content • What goes on AFTER the story • Negotiation of “story-understanding” • Negotiation of identities + social bonding

  6. Davie Hogan

  7. Work with Transcripts - EXERCISE 2 • Betty Tells Her Story • A story about Betty buying a dress for the ball, looking and feeling in it as beautiful as never before; then losing the dress before she can wear or show it • Version A • Version B • How do the two versions differ? • What MAKES them different? WHAT ARE WE ANALYZING HERE?

  8. Version A -------------- Version B Betty tells her story

  9. Episode/SegmentTrying on my new dress at the Deephalis house • Version A: • Lines 77-117 • Version B: • Lines 70-110 • Microanalysis of the two versions: two different kinds of positionings

  10. SUMMARY of exercise 1 + 2 • What can we summarize (thus far) regarding narratives as a ‘window’ (= heuristic) into people’s constructions of their ‘sense-of-self’? • How can this tool be used for cultural/cross-cultural research? • What can we learn from the ‘microanalysis’ of small segments?

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