Title

Narratives As Zones Of Dialogic Constructions: A Bakhtinian Approach To Data In Qualitative Research

Abstract

Narratives have become increasingly important in the field of applied linguistics, as recent publications have illustrated, yet narrative analysis could still be considered undertheorized. This article outlines a specific, dialogical approach to the narrative analysis of data in qualitative research. Building on Bakhtin's notion of dialogue, it claims that personal narratives are uniquely positioned to capture the interplay between humans' individual and autobiographic experiences on the one hand, and larger, socio-cultural discourses on the other. Narrators can actively construct relations with others and reposition themselves on the planes of both textual and visual media. The article illuminates that through strategies such as double-voicing, narratives function as a tool for repositioning, resistance, and agency. © 2013 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

7-1-2013

Publication Title

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

Volume

10

Issue

3

Number of Pages

242-261

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2013.816827

Socpus ID

84884338995 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84884338995

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