Georgakopoulou2002
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Georgakopoulou2002 |
| Author(s) | Alexandra Georgakopoulou |
| Title | Narrative and Identity Management: Discourse and Social Identities in a Tale of Tomorrow |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Narratives, Identity |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 427-451 |
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| DOI | 10.1207/S15327973RLSI3504_2 |
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Abstract
The ways in which interactional details and roles enacted by participants in relation to the ongoing production of a story connect with larger roles and identities have not been at the center of the problematics of identity construction in narrative. In an at- tempt to redress the balance, this article uses a broad definition of the conversation- analytic concept of discourse identities and takes into account the ethnography of its data to explore the discourse identities management in the course of a conversa- tional tale of tomorrow constructed by 3 Greek female adolescents. Stories of pro- jected events, along with stories of shared events, form the specific group’s main narrative practices. I show that the joint construction of the story at hand rests on the participants’ enactment of a set of discourse identities that are intertwined with the story’s emerging internal structure, particularly the components of complicating ac- tion and evaluation. These identities are interrelated to the participants’ larger social roles and identities as friends and members of a close-knit group who share an interactional history.
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