Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Transcription Conventions -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Why a Handbook in Narrative Analysis? -- From Narrative Analysis of Texts to the Analysis of Social Practices -- Overview -- References -- Part I Narrative Foundations: Knowledge, Learning, and Experience -- Chapter 1 Narrative as a Mode of Understanding: Method, Theory, Praxis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Narrative Mania -- 1.3 Narrative Excess -- 1.4 Narrative Illusion -- 1.5 Narrative as Method: Reading for Meaning -- 1.6 Narrative as Theory: The Hermeneutics of Human Understanding -- 1.7 Narrative as Praxis: From Big Stories to Small -- References -- Chapter 2 Story Ownership and Entitlement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Story Ownership and Retellings -- 2.3 Entitlement in Conversation -- 2.4 Story Ownership, Authoritative Discourse, and Reported Speech -- 2.5 Speaking for Others: Problems of Representation -- 2.6 Speaking on Behalf of Another: Advocacy and Exploitation -- 2.7 Disclosure/Non-disclosure -- 2.8 Cultural Rules for Ownership and Tellability -- 2.9 Questions of Belonging and Ownership -- 2.10 Credibility, Story Ownership, and Genre -- 2.11 The Obligation to Tell/Speak -- 2.12 Silence, the Unspeakable, and the Illegible -- 2.13 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Narrating and Arguing: From Plausibility to Local Moves -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Views on Everyday Argumentation and Reasoning -- 3.3 The Importance of the Discourse of a Sociocultural Practice -- 3.4 Arguing by Narrating -- 3.5 Other Ways of Backing a Claim in, with, and across Narratives -- 3.6 A Local Mechanism for the Effective Presentation of Claims -- 3.7 The Special Case of "Why" -- 3.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Narrative, Cognition, and Socialization -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 L2 Narrative Development.

4.3 Content-based Narrative Analyses: Labovian Methodology -- 4.4 Method -- 4.5 Results -- 4.6 Overall Discussion -- 4.7 Conclusion and Future Perspectives -- References -- Chapter 5 Narrative Knowledging in Second Language Teaching and Learning Contexts -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Narrative Knowledging -- 5.3 Analytical Approaches -- 5.4 Learners - Autobiographical Research -- 5.5 Learners - Biographical Research -- 5.6 Teachers - Autobiographical Research -- 5.7 Teachers - Biographical Research - Professional Development -- 5.8 Teachers - Biographical Research - Not Professional Development -- 5.9 Teachers and Learners - Biographical Research -- 5.10 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Time-Space Organization -- Chapter 6 Narrative and Space/Time -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 From Backdrop to Constitutive Accounts of Space/Time Orientation in Narrative -- 6.3 Narratives of Border Crossing -- 6.4 Deictic Transposition in Migration Narratives -- 6.5 Migration from West to East in Post-Unification Germany -- 6.6 Socio-symbolic Meanings of Space/Time in Narrative -- 6.7 Scale and Space/Time Orientation in Narrative -- 6.8 Scale and Indexicality in Narratives of Migration -- 6.9 Space/Time in Language Classrooms -- 6.10 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Chronotopes: Time and Space in Oral Narrative -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Bakhtin's Chronotope in Literature and Beyond -- 7.3 Enacting Cross-Chronotope Alignment in Oral Narratives -- 7.4 From "Displaced" to "Coeval" Alignment in Italian Oral Narratives -- 7.5 Participant Transposition through Coeval Alignment in Senegalese Oral Narrative -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Narratives Across Speech Events -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 How Narratives Presuppose Other Events -- 8.3 Chains of Narrating Events -- 8.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9 Analyzing Narrative Genres.

9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Genres and Modes -- 9.3 Theoretical and Historical Genres -- 9.4 Archetypal Genres -- 9.5 Primary and Secondary Genres -- 9.6 Genre as Text vs. Action -- 9.7 Genre in Systemic-Functional Linguistics and English for Special Purposes -- 9.8 Narrative as a Text Type -- 9.9 Illness Narrative as a Suggested Genre -- 9.10 From Institutional Contexts to Genres -- 9.11 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Part III Narrative Interaction -- Chapter 10 Narrative as Talk-in-Interaction -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Story Prefaces -- 10.3 Goffman's Deconstruction of the Speaker -- 10.4 A Silent Though Visible Principal Character -- 10.5 Building Action by Performing Structure-Preserving Transformations on a Public Substrate -- 10.6 The Visible Cognitive Life of the Hearer -- 10.7 Temporally Unfolding Participation Central to the Organization of Interactive Narrative -- 10.8 Building Social and Political Organization through Interactive Narrative -- 10.9 A Family of Interactively Organized Stories -- 10.10 A Powerful Storyteller Who Can't Speak -- 10.11 Building Both Knowing Actors and the Discursive Objects to be Known through Interactive Narrative -- 10.12 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Reflexivity and Narrative Research -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Disparate Meanings of Reflexivity -- 11.3 Beginnings: Personal and Anthropological -- 11.4 Reflexivity in an Appendix -- 11.5 Reflexivity and the Conversational Context -- 11.6 Contemporary Modes of Self-Reflexivity -- 11.7 Moving Beyond the Self -- 11.8 Conclusion: Multiple Reflexivities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 The Role of the Researcher in Interview Narratives -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Role of the Researcher in Responding to Emerging Narrative Expression.

12.3 The Role of the Researcher in Encouraging Narrative Forms of Expression -- 12.4 The Role of the Researcher in Detecting Narrativity through Careful Analysis -- 12.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13 Small Stories Research: Methods - Analysis - Outreach -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Context for Small Stories Research -- 13.3 Small Stories Research as a Critique of the Narrative Canon Definitional Criteria -- 13.4 Small Stories Genres: Breaking News as a Case in Point -- 13.5 Applications and Outreach -- 13.6 Small Stories and Social Media -- 13.7 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Part IV Stories in Social Practices -- Chapter 14 Narratives and Stories in Organizational Life -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Narratives and Sensemaking -- 14.3 Narratives and Politics, Control and Resistance -- 14.4 Narratives and Organizational Identities -- 14.5 The Mythical Dimension in Narratives - Archetypes and Deep Structures -- 14.6 Narratives, Knowledge, and Learning -- 14.7 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15 Narrative, Institutional Processes, and Gendered Inequalities -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Narratives in Their Original Occasions of Production: The Courtroom -- 15.3 Narratives Beyond Their Original Occasions of Production: Text Trajectories -- 15.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Narratives in Family Contexts -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Defining "Narrative" in Family Contexts -- 16.3 Collecting Narratives in Family Contexts -- 16.4 Functions of Narratives in Family Contexts: Socialization and Sociability -- 16.5 Sample Analysis: Constructing Family Through Narrative -- 16.6 Concluding Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 The Narrative Dimensions of Social Media Storytelling: Options for Linearity and Tellership -- 17.1 Social Media Storytelling: Contexts for Analysis.

17.2 Linearity and Social Media Storytelling -- 17.3 Tellership and Social Media Narration -- 17.4 Linearity and Tellership Combined -- 17.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part V Performing Self, Positioning Others -- Chapter 18 Narrative and Identities -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Two Paradigms: Biographical and Interactionally Oriented Approaches -- 18.3 Interactionally Oriented Approaches: An Illustration -- 18.4 Identity Types, Contexts, and Their Interactions -- 18.5 The Dilemma of Local versus Transportable Identities -- 18.6 Identity and Narratives in Computer-Mediated Contexts -- 18.7 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 Positioning -- 19.1 Positioning as an Approach to Identity and Discourse -- 19.2 Theoretical Approaches of Positioning -- 19.3 Currents Debates in Positioning Research -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Narrative and Cultural Identities: Performing and Aligning with Figures of Personhood -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Previous Work on Narrative and Cultural Identity: A Focused Review -- 20.3 Bakhtinian Perspectives -- 20.4 Figures of Personhood and Alignment to Them in Portuguese Emigrants' Daughters' Narratives -- 20.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 21 Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives -- 21.1 Social Identity Theory -- 21.2 Discursive Approaches to Collective Identities -- 21.3 Collective Identities in Narratives -- 21.4 Analytical Tools for the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities -- 21.5 Applying This Variety of Insights -- 21.6 Analysis -- 21.7 Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 22 Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Bodies and Identities -- 22.3 Narrative Embodiedness -- 22.4 Narrative Body Construction.

22.5 Narrative Incorporation and Exclusion of Prosthetic Parts.