- Home
- e-Journals
- Narrative Inquiry
- Fast Track Listing
Narrative Inquiry - Online First
Online First articles are the published Version of Record, made available as soon as they are finalized and formatted. They are in general accessible to current subscribers, until they have been included in an issue, which is accessible to subscribers to the relevant volume
-
-
Narrating violent victimization by positioning self and others *
Author(s): Mari Hatavara and Lois PresserAvailable online: 28 February 2025More LessAbstractVictimologists observe that telling one’s story can foster healing for survivors of violence. To understand these processes better, victims’ narratives must be understood as situated acts of telling. This paper takes one man’s narration of victimization long past — child abuse and rape — as a case. We examined his interview-derived storytelling with a focus on narrative positioning, narrative discourse modes, and negations. We found that Stefan (a pseudonym) used various discursive modes and narrative positionings to exercise control over the stories and what they mean. His agency was partly achieved by what he recounted not doing or saying, and what he refused to address in the interview situation. Thus, his narratives feature his own defiance and self-empowerment in both the scene and the aftermath of violence. These findings lead us to conclude that narrative strategies of storytelling should be taken into account in any practical interventions that involves testimony about harm.
-
-
-
World in motion : Narratives in the context of migration and digitalization
Author(s): Christina SchachtnerAvailable online: 25 February 2025More LessAbstractMigration is part of the “global movement potential” (Albrow, 2014, p. 14) that is currently shaping social change worldwide. This article focuses on the narratives and narrative practices of migrants. It is assumed that narrative is an attempt to come to terms with migration experiences. The research interest focuses on the what, how and why of migrant narratives and the role of digital media in everyday storytelling. The empirical basis is the study “Transnational living”, in which people from various African, Arab and European countries were included. The research methods are committed to an understanding-interpretative paradigm. Discourses from migration, narration and mediatization research form the theoretical framework of the analysis.
-
-
-
Story alteration in oral history retellings : Methods of comparative work
Author(s): Jakub Mlynář, Jiří Kocián, Hryhorii Maliukov and Karin Roginer HofmeisterAvailable online: 23 January 2025More LessAbstractThe digitalization of oral history (OH) has resulted in the availability of multiple interviews conducted with the same narrator under different circumstances. To explore the comparability of such materials, we analyze interviews with a Holocaust survivor from the Fortunoff Video Archive (1979) and the Visual History Archive (1997), focusing on instances in which she tells the “same” episode. We demonstrate that life-story segments before and after the episode provide clues for sense-making and reflexively constitute the narrative environment. The specific interactional features of OH as a situated practice contribute to the story’s recognizability and discursive alteration. Similarities and differences are detectable due to the coherence established by the social setting of OH, including its availability in a digital archive, which guarantees comparability and incorporates a broader chronology. The main contribution of our paper is methodological, as it outlines an apparatus for the comparative analysis of OH across multiple databases.
-
-
-
Review of Barnwell & Ravn (2024): Narrative Research Now: Critical Perspectives on the Promise of Stories
Author(s): yanhua ChengAvailable online: 23 January 2025More Less
-
-
-
Telling an expressive narrative in a foreign language : Analysis of Chinese JFL learners’ evaluative strategies in oral narrative discourse
Author(s): Zhen Chen and Zhengrui HanAvailable online: 22 November 2024More LessAbstractThis study explores the discourse expressivity of Chinese JFL (Japanese as a foreign language) learners’ Japanese narratives in terms of the variety and use of evaluative strategies, and analyzes how the evaluation system in their first language (L1) may be evident in their second language (L2) performance. For this reason, using the wordless picture book Frog, where are you?, we examined the oral narratives produced by adult Japanese native speakers, adult Chinese native speakers, and Chinese JFL learners. The findings suggest that the absence of “utterance attitudes” in the Chinese-language narratives is evident in the Japanese-language narratives of the Chinese JFL learners; thus, the evaluation of JFL stories is somewhat more direct, and the stories are easier to understand than those of adult JNS. However, the evaluations of the Chinese JFL learners’ narratives also diverged from those of the adult CNS in the direction of the target language’s norms.
-
-
-
From offline to online stigma resistance : Identity construction in narratives of infertile Muslim women
Author(s): Fatema Alhalwachi and Lisa J. McEntee-AtalianisAvailable online: 22 November 2024More LessAbstractThis paper is the first to address the impact of gendered, cultural and religious discourses on an under-researched subaltern group of infertile Muslim women bloggers. Taking a small story and case study approach, the analysis focuses on interactivity and positioning (Bamberg & Georgakopoulou, 2008, Georgakopoulou, 2008) in one woman’s stories as she works hard to address normative expectations and dominant discourses which abound in Muslim societies. The paper highlights the stigmatisation and isolation women face, not only in the physical world, but sometimes in the online world too. We argue that Weblogs provide a unique and unexplored space where discourses of gender, sexual, and other identities are resisted and challenged. Simultaneously Weblogs can serve as both supportive and exclusionary sites in which bloggers’ rights and duties become regulated. The study opens a window into the world of infertile Muslim women and has important implications for relevant healthcare and policy making.
-
-
-
Storybaiting online. Interactive life storying in social media
Author(s): Mari Hatavara, Hanna Rautajoki and Jarkko ToikkanenAvailable online: 22 November 2024More LessAbstractWe study co-constructed narrative exchange in online storytelling. Our test case is the Finnish YouTuber Niilo22, an unemployed person who broadcasts frequent video clips of his everyday activities while chatting on stock issues and interacting with his followers. Followers engage in lively commentary and team up to make evaluative interpretations of Niilo22’s life on the go. The interpretive frames imposed draw on pre-existing story templates rooted in culturally shared actor categories. We propose the concept of storybaiting to denote the two-way dynamic between Niilo22 and his followers whereby responses triggered by the clips produce further input in the narration, resulting in shared and circularly progressive authorship. This action blurs the ownership of the story and dilutes the teller’s privileges. Life storying in online platforms turns into interactive storybaiting where everybody involved gives and takes cues to evaluate the social media personality and position him in regard to repeated story templates.
-
-
-
A quantitative analysis of semantic characteristics and success of personal narratives on social media
Author(s): Huixia Sun, Xueqi Xiang and Jin WangAvailable online: 22 November 2024More LessAbstractDue to limitations in data and methodologies, few quantitative analyses have been conducted on large-scale personal narratives. This paper addresses this gap by quantifying the semantic progression of personal narratives on Twitter and examining its relationship with narrative success. Our findings reveal significant variations in the factors influencing the success of personal narratives in politics, entertainment, and sports categories. This study deepens our understanding of the semantic characteristics and success of personal narratives, inspiring further exploration into the influence of the characteristics and success of personal narratives on self-identity.
-
-
-
A different perspective on epistemics and deontics : Conveying story evaluation through the construction of status-stance relations via direct reported speech
Author(s): Dorien Van De Mieroop, Melisa Stevanovic, Minna Leinonen and Henri NevalainenAvailable online: 22 November 2024More LessAbstractThus far, few studies have investigated the evaluative points narrators may convey through the sequential features of reported exchanges in their stories. In this article, we conduct a micro-oriented narrative analysis on how epistemic and deontic status-stance relations are depicted by narrators in sequences of reported turns. We thus uncover how hierarchies and potential transgressions between the characters in the storyworld are “shown” rather than “told” to the story recipients, who are in this way equipped to evaluate the story as a whole and the story characters’ accountability for their interactional behavior in particular. Furthermore, we argue that the narrators’ discursive set-up of epistemic and deontic relations in these reported exchanges also displays their emic perspective to them. Therefore we believe that our approach can pave the way for a novel approach to epistemics and deontics, complementing the insights gained in the conversation-analytic examination of these phenomena in situ.
-
-
-
Understanding the relationship between narrative identity, transdiagnostic factors and psychological functioning in a young adult community sample
Author(s): Monique Corbett, Vincent Reid and Amy BirdAvailable online: 13 June 2024More LessAbstractDetermining how narrative identity relates to psychological functioning is important for understanding how psychopathology develops and is maintained. The present study investigated whether transdiagnostic factors mediate and/or moderate associations of narrative identity with psychological functioning. We analysed data from n = 245 University students who completed an online survey measuring turning point narratives, transdiagnostic factors and psychological functioning. Results indicated that rumination and emotion dysregulation, but not overgeneral memory, mediated the relationship between lower causal coherence and psychological functioning. Contrary to predictions, neither attachment security nor memory tone moderated any relationships between narrative identity and psychological functioning. These pathways may be particularly important for understanding the development and maintenance of psychopathology.
-
-
-
Modus narrandi sceleris: Temporal shift in the crafting style of crime narratives
Author(s): Fabio Indìo Massimo PoppiAvailable online: 24 May 2024More LessAbstractThis study contributes to a methodological debate within narrative studies, emerging from the specific context of narrative criminology. It examines the evolution of storytelling styles, focusing on how the narrative selection process shapes a narrative, thereby revealing both the origins of narratives and their capacity to offer critical insights into the narrator’s perspective. This research specifically investigates the change of how narratives about the same events or topics, as recounted by two different individuals, change over time in terms of their narrative construction. Focusing on crime narratives provided by two participants – a drug dealer and a gangmaster – first in 2019 and again in 2023, the study demonstrates how these narratives not only evolve in structural complexity but also incorporate more sophisticated elements that highlight the narrators’ agency, rationalize or justify their criminal actions, or depict complex criminal identities. The findings underscore the potent methodological contributions this approach can make to narrative criminology, offering new insights into criminal behavior and dynamics that might not be as apparent in single-time-point interviews. This approach thus enriches the broader narrative studies discourse by applying its techniques and insights to the unique challenges and structures of criminal narratives.
-
-
-
Review of Ladegaard (2023): Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return: Alienation and Identity Transformations
Author(s): Shenyan Zhou and Yuanyuan HuAvailable online: 03 November 2023More Less
-
-
-
Review of Fletcher (2023): Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence
Author(s): Norbert FrancisAvailable online: 30 October 2023More Less
-
-
-
Remembrance practices in the 21st century : Collective and individual memory on social media – the case of @eva.stories
Author(s): Alonit Berenson and Inbar EzraAvailable online: 17 August 2023More LessAbstractIndividuals and groups construct identity through storytelling. Sometimes individuals use these to remember past events and group narratives to foster a sense of belonging. The individual and group interact and build relationships through shared memory. The present paper examines the mediatic representations of individual perceptions of the Holocaust in @eva.stories that evoke, revive, and revitalize Holocaust collective memory. Based on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, we analyzed and organized the findings according to the following communication categories: content, mode, and medium. Using Instagram to enliven Eva’s storytelling creates a unique duality between the audience and the implicit story content. Consequently, multimodal storytelling via Instagram bridges the historical past to the present generation. We conclude that the collective memory’s retelling and preservation constantly change due to cultural and political contexts. Consequently, as today’s online environments are a crucial sphere of discourse, online spaces play a role in creating, maintaining, and spreading collective memories.
-
-
-
Review of Farmasi (2023): Narrative, perception, and the embodied mind: Towards a neuro-narratology
Author(s): Fang WangAvailable online: 24 February 2023More Less
-
Most Read This Month Most Read RSS feed
-
-
Autobiographical Time
Author(s): Jens Brockmeier
-
- More Less