scholarly journals Ethnopoetics and Narrative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Paul Atkinson ◽  
Natasha Carver
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

We acknowledge and concur with Catherine Kohler Riessman’s insistence on the necessity of sustained and formal analysis of narratives. We thus distance ourselves from qualitative researchers who aim to celebrate personal narratives rather than undertaking that analytic work. In doing so, we also draw on the work of Dell Hymes, whose approach to ethnopoetics informs our own. The discussion is developed and illustrated with materials from Natasha Carver’s research with informants of Somali heritage that display the relevance of ethnopoetic transcription and analysis.

The Formal Analysis of Narratives of Organizational Change

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Stevenson ◽  
Danna N. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Environmental Dispute ◽  
Change Event ◽  
Narrative Description ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

Formal analysis of narrative descriptions of events allows the researcher to rigorously examine processes of organizational change. Event-structure analysis (ESA), a rule-driven formal technique of narrative analysis, is applied to a narrative description of an environmental dispute. Various organizations and government agencies engaged in this dispute. ESA is applied to the narrative to clarify the causal linkages among the events and to demonstrate the advantages of studying organizational change through the formal analysis of narratives.

Transforming Conflict Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 154134462110451
Author(s):  
Beth Fisher-Yoshida ◽  
Joan C. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Coordinated Management Of Meaning ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Of Meaning ◽  
Social Narrative ◽  
Conflict Narratives

Narratives, both personal and social, guide how we live and how we are acculturated into our social worlds. As we make changes in our lives, our personal stories change and, in turn, have the potential to influence the social narratives of which we are a part. Likewise, when there are changes in the culture and social worlds around us, that social narrative changes, thereby affecting our personal narratives. In other words, personal and social narratives are strongly linked and mutually influence each other. We may feel and know these transformations take place and understand the ways in which our lives are affected. However, we often struggle to document these shifts. This article suggests using the practical theory, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) (Pearce, 2007), for narrative analysis to identify and surface personal and social narrative transformations.

Systematic Literature Review on Narratives in Organizations: Research Issues and Avenues for Future Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Sahni ◽  
Chandranshu Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Narrative as a method is an interpretive approach of sharing individual experiences and beliefs that facilitates knowledge and generates human responses. The purpose of this study is to review the body of literature available using narratology in organization studies. This article employs a systematic literature review of 186 research articles in 94 identified journals from the year 1995 to 2014 that were subsequently evaluated for analysis. The review identifies five different approaches used by the narrative researchers across disciplines—content analysis (case study method), structural analysis, oral narratives and personal narratives, their contribution and spread in organizations. This article attempts to reinforce the significance of taking narratives as a methodology in organizations by providing a systematic overview of past research works in organizational settings. The study also summarizes the analytical approaches of narrative analysis used in 186 articles, which might underpin the qualitative research and provide some practical advice for those who wish to use narrative analysis in future.

How to Increase the Quality of a Suffering Experience: Lessons Derived From the Diary Narratives of a Dying Adolescent Girl

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Volkan Kavas
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Adolescent Girl ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological

Personal narratives are assumed to be primary sources of the essential meaning of lived experiences of dying. In this study, I analyzed the personal diary of Miraç Fidan, a terminally ill adolescent with advanced cancer who kept a diary until her death at the age of 15. Miraç’s Diary, also published as a book, was subjected to hermeneutic phenomenological narrative analysis. Inferences were drawn regarding the following basic elements: (a) The dynamics in which Miraç lived and (2) her perceptions of herself, her immediate environment, and her experiences. Suffering seems to be the main experience dominating Miraç’s life, which I examined with regard to two dimensions: suffering caused by inevitable factors and suffering caused by preventable/changeable factors. The results suggest that if various causes among contextual factors are neutralized, then the quality of the existential experience determined by the inevitable factors would increase.

Actantial analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Carl W. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Versus Communication ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
The Subject

This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic actantial structure from self-narratives is shown to provide cues to power differentials among actants as perceived by the narrator. Distinguishing narrated events along conflict versus communication axes helps the analyst determine whether an experiential or a discursive domain is of primacy for the narrator. Moreover, investigation of communicative outcomes can be used to validate (or invalidate) findings on power relations. Analyses of narrative plots may afford insights into how people engage objects with cultural valuations within the various social contexts recounted in narrative data. Finally, Greimas's theory of modalities can be used to differentiate among these plots within narrative trajectories. This approach to narrative analysis differs from more traditional “denarrativization” and “renarrativization” approaches in that it affords the researcher a language (or discursive structure) according to which the narrator's, not the analyst's, understandings of character relations and reality conditions become the subject matter of one's research.

Connecting L1 and L2 acquisition: From the perspective of macro and micro narrative structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-164
Author(s):  
Masahiko Minami
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
L1 And L2

Abstract The studies presented in this paper connect the story-related quality and the language-related quality of narrative discourse. The term “coherence” refers to whether or not a text makes sense at a global level, whereas “cohesion” describes the linguistic relationships among clauses in a narrative, such as how the surface linguistic elements of a text are linked to one another at a local level. Using a content-based narrative analysis, a trilogy – a set of three independent but interrelated studies – introduced in this paper quantitatively analyze oral personal narratives through three lenses. As examples of devices for cohesion, the paper qualitatively examines the use of two linguistic devices, tense (past and non-past) and voice (active and passive), and tries to show how narrators deploy organizational strategies in the use of these linguistic forms. The paper (1) examines varied topics in different narrative contexts (genre, topic, oral or written), (2) reveals how both coherence and cohesion serve as the twin engines of narrative, and (3) emphasizes the significance of paying attention not only to the narrative content/structure but also to the appropriate use of linguistic devices so that we can fully grasp language-specific ways of expressing affective elements in narrative.

scholarly journals Explorations of Self-Efficacy: Personal Narratives as Qualitative Data in the Analysis of Smoking Cessation Efforts

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Rollins ◽  
Jenepher Lennox Terrion
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Smoking Intervention ◽  
Smoking Cessation Counselling ◽  
Cardiovascular Patients ◽  
Quitting Smoking ◽  
Readiness To Quit

AbstractResearch has found that an individual's perceived self-efficacy, supported by goals and the acceptance of potential obstacles, has the ability to assist in behaviour modification. By examining the narratives of cardiovascular patients undergoing smoking cessation counselling, this study highlights factors that individuals communicate in their narratives regarding changes to self-efficacy throughout the process of smoking cessation. Narrative analysis is used to establish those factors that cardiovascular patients assert to be the motivating or impeding factors in their smoking cessation efforts, particularly in relation to their initial readiness to quit smoking. The study's findings illustrate the social, physical and psychological barriers and motivating factors that exist for cardiovascular patients in the process of quitting smoking. The current study supplements past research illustrating that in-hospital programs are among the most influential smoking intervention strategies because they can be tailored to each patient's specific health problems and personal and social circumstances. The study concludes that the relationship formed between patients and intervention specialists can assist in raising an individual's self-efficacy to end an addictive behaviour.

scholarly journals Narrative Style: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Oral Personal Experience Narratives

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Dr. Ayaz Ahmad ◽  
Mr. Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives

Personal narrative, a very important subgenre of narratives, is usually developed in a particular style. To know its specificity, in this study, oral personal narratives have been analyzed. For this purpose, twenty oral narratives, collected from twenty students of BS English, have been analyzed. In order to understand the macrostructure, i.e., narrative categories, Labov’s (1972) model of sociolinguist features of narratives has been used. For the analysis of microstructures, Halliday’s and Hasan’s (1976) five key cohesive ties: references, conjunction, substitution, ellipses, and lexical ties have been used. It was found that with little variations, most of the personal experience oral narratives follow the Labov’s structure of narrative analysis, i.e., abstract, orientation, complicating actions, resolution, evaluation, and coda. Likewise, while doing microanalysis, it was found that the narratives were well-compact with the help of elements of cohesive ties. The study shows that oral personal experience narratives can have the same structure as those of written narratives.

scholarly journals Making Sense of the Unknown: A Narrative Analysis of COVID-19 Stories as Told by WSU Research Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Alicia Van der Spuy ◽  
Lakshmi Jayakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
Research Students

Storytelling is an important tool through which to make sense of life experiences. Stories can be classified as personal narratives, historical documentaries and those that inform the viewer about a specific concept or practice. These narratives can be used to promote discussion about current issues in the world. Storytelling can thus be seen as an effective learning tool for students by providing a strong foundation in “Twenty First Century Literacy” skills as well as advancing emotional intelligence and social learning. This project used storytelling to gather information regarding people’s encounters with COVID-19 and lockdown, with specific focus on the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Employing a content analysis methodology, it attempts to analyze responses to narrative inquiry interviews about the COVID-19 pandemic as conducted by students, as part of their introduction to the methodology of research.  These responses were used to generalize findings, as well as to look at individual reactions that could bring light to, and make sense of the human experience of the pandemic within an educational context. Both negative and positive experiences were related by interviewees and students.    

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