ABSTRACT
Narratives are cultural as well as individual affairs. To the extent that the entry of an individual into his or her culture is mediated by language, any personal narrative, account, or other kind of monologic text will be reflective of prior dialogic processes in the history of the narrator. Thus, a piece of narrative discourse can be taken as a context where the culture embodied by the individual unfolds simultaneously. In this study I investigate the ways in which the socioculturally determined individual comes through in the creation of a text.
