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Taylor, Stephanie
(2006).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.1.13tay
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).
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- Journal Item
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- 1387-6740
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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
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
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- Stephanie Taylor