Taylor, Stephanie
(2006).
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Abstract
Discursive psychologists (Edley, 2001; Potter & Wetherell, 1987; Wetherell, 1998) have analysed identity work in talk, including the ways in which understandings which prevail in a wider social context are taken up or resisted as speakers position themselves and are positioned by others. In these terms, a narrative is generally understood in two ways. The first is as an established understanding of sequence or consequence, such as a potential life trajectory, which becomes a discursive resource for speakers to draw on (cf. Bruner's 'canonical narratives', 1991). The second is of a narrative as a situated construction, such as the biography produced by a speaker within a particular interaction. In this article, I propose an expanded analytic focus which considers how the versions of a biographical narrative produced in previous tellings become resources for future talk, thus setting constraints on a reflexive speaker's work to construct a coherent identity across separate interactions and contexts (Taylor & Littleton, forthcoming).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2006 John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| ISSN: | 1387-6740 |
| Extra Information: | This article also appears as a book chapter in: Bamberg, Michael (ed.),'Narrative � State of the Art', USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company Limited, 2007.
ISBN 9789027222367 |
| Keywords: | life narrative; discursive resources; continuity; rehearsal |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Psychology in the Social Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 7194 |
| Depositing User: | Stephanie Taylor |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2012 11:38 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/7194 |
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