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

history of narrative research

• Narratology

• Narratives as tools for cognitive…. Psychology

• Narrative in the Social sciences

• Across disciplines

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

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)

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

Davie Hogan

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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?

Version A -------------- Version B

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Betty tells her story

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

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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?