ABSTRACT
This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives.
The volume both takes stock of and seeks to advance the development of small stories research by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Bamberg, as a counterpoint to conventional models in narrative studies, one which has accounted for "atypical" yet salient activities in everyday life, such as fragmentation and open-endedness, anchoring onto the present, and co-constructive dimensions in stories and identities. With data from different languages and contexts, emphasis is placed on the analytical aspects of the paradigm toward producing models for the analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and genres of small stories. Chapters on the role and commodification of small stories in digital environments reflect on the paradigm’s recent extension to the analysis of social media communication.
This book will appeal to scholars interested in narrative inquiry and narrative analysis, in such fields as sociolinguistics, literary studies, communication studies, and biographical studies.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
ALEX GEORGAKOPOULOU, KORINA GIAXOGLOU, SYLVIA PATRON
Part I Small stories and big stories: Beyond binaries
- The narrative structure of small stories
- Dialogue, Small Stories, and Exile Identities in Mario Benedetti's Historias de París
- Valérie Mréjen: Small stories ‘out of order’
- Are small stories another category of narrating?
- Reimagining personal stories on social media
- World attending in the urban landscape: noticings as small stories
- Moving through a moving (storied) world: small stories and their contribution to ethnographic studies of place
- "That was rude": metapragmatic impoliteness evaluations in breaking news small stories
- Storying taken-for-granted futureworlds in hair-salon ‘future busy stories’
- Projective small stories invoking policy paths in parliamentary debates: Narrating
- Small Stories in mass media: Coalescent themes and tactics in Trump’s Twitter presidency
- Telling the small, fragmented and "in-complete" about experiences with sexual violations: Narrative stancetaking in feminist hashtag storytelling practices on Twitter in Sweden
- Small Stories in Oral Histories: Multimodal Analyses of Narratives about Extreme Sensory Experiences
- Stories (not) to be told: a glimpse at resistance toward ‘hot topics’ in psychotherapy
- Telling-by-doing life as a mother in YouTube vlogs
MONIKA FLUDERNIK
SYLVIE PATRON
CÉCILE DE BARY
BRIAN SCHIFF
ANA GARNER
Part II Ways of telling: Genres and resources
LEOR COHEN
WILLIAM KELLEHER
VASILIKI SALOUSTROU
RACHEL HEINRICHSMEIER
outcome, performance, and responsibilities
HANNA RAUTOJOKI, MARI HATAVARA & MATTI HYVÄRINEN
Part III: Participation & Positioning
MICHAEL HUMPHREY
FREDRIK EKLUND
PHILIPP FREYBURGER
CHRISTOPHER KOPPERMAN
MIKKA PERS LENE