Identity in Narrative -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Overview of the volume -- Identity in Narrative -- Identity in narrative -- Introduction -- 1. Narrative genre and types of narratives -- 2. Identity and narrative -- Lexical level -- Textual/Pragmatic level -- Interactional level -- 3. Local and global contexts -- The social phenomenon -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican undocumented immigrants to the United States -- 1.1. Number and origin of Mexican undocumented workers in the U.S. -- 1.2. Reasons for migrating and sociocultural characteristics of Mexican immigrants -- 1.3. The migration process -- 2. The subjects of the study -- 2.1. Life in the United States -- 3. The Intertextual domain: Public discourse on immigration -- 4. Notes on methodology and data -- 4.1. The interviews -- 4.2. Data selection and transcription -- Identity as social orientation -- Introduction -- 1. Pronominal choice and speaker-orientation -- 2. Pronominal choice and cultural conceptions of the self -- 3. Personal and collective protagonists in narratives of personal experience -- 4. Pronominal distribution in story clauses -- 5. Pronominal switches and repair -- 6. Depersonalization in stories: From yo to uno and tu -- 7. Generalization of experience and story codas -- 8. Conclusions -- Identity as agency -- Introduction -- 1. Reported speech in narrative -- 2. Chronicles as a type of narrative -- 3. Crossing the border -- 4. Reported speech in the chronicles -- 5. Coding of reported speech acts -- 6. Analysis: Individual chronicles -- 6.1. Reported speech and power -- 6.2. Interactional positioning -- 7. Analysis: Collective chronicles -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusions -- Identity as categorization -- Introduction -- 1. Categories of identification: Ethnicity.

2. Immigrants and social practices of categorization -- 3. Functions of orientation and detail in stories -- 4. Interactional world relevance of ethnic descriptions -- 5. Story world relevance of ethnic identifications -- 6. Irrelevant mentions? -- 7. Ethnic identities in interactional and story world contexts -- 8. Conclusions -- Identity as social representation -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnicity: Some definitions -- 2. Identity as representation -- 3. Being Hispanic in different story worlds: The chronicles -- 4. Being Hispanic in different story worlds: Experiences after settlement -- 5. Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Introduction -- 1. Social roles, agency and membership into communities -- 2. Storytelling, discourse, identity -- 3. Concluding remarks and perspectives for future research -- Appendix 1. Interview log -- Translation -- Appendix 2. -- Transcription conventions -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- The series STUDIES IN NARRATIVE.