Transcription Conventions vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Part I Narrative Foundations: Knowledge, Learning, and Experience 19

1 Narrative as a Mode of Understanding: Method, Theory, Praxis 21
Mark Freeman

2 Story Ownership and Entitlement 38
Amy Shuman

3 Narrating and Arguing: From Plausibility to Local Moves 57
Isolda E. Carranza

4 Narrative, Cognition, and Socialization 76
Masahiko Minami

5 Narrative Knowledging in Second Language Teaching and Learning Contexts 97
Gary Barkhuizen

Part II Time‐Space Organization 117

6 Narrative and Space/Time 119
Mike Baynham

7 Chronotopes: Time and Space in Oral Narrative 140
Sabina Perrino

8 Narratives Across Speech Events 160
Stanton Wortham and Catherine R. Rhodes

9 Analyzing Narrative Genres 178
Matti Hyvärinen

Part III Narrative Interaction 195

10 Narrative as Talk‐in‐Interaction 197
Charles Goodwin

11 Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Reflexivity and Narrative Research 219
Catherine Kohler Riessman

12 The Role of the Researcher in Interview Narratives 239
Stef Slembrouck

13 Small Stories Research: Methods – Analysis – Outreach 255
Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Part IV Stories in Social Practices 273

14 Narratives and Stories in Organizational Life 275
Yiannis Gabriel

15 Narrative, Institutional Processes, and Gendered Inequalities 293
Susan Ehrlich

16 Narratives in Family Contexts 311
Cynthia Gordon

17 The Narrative Dimensions of Social Media Storytelling: Options for Linearity and Tellership 329
Ruth Page

Part V Performing Self, Positioning Others 349

18 Narrative and Identities 351
Anna De Fina

19 Positioning 369
Arnulf Deppermann

20 Narrative and Cultural Identities: Performing and Aligning with Figures of Personhood 388
Michele Koven

21 Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives 408
Dorien Van De Mieroop

22 Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives 429
Emily Heavey

Index 447

"This Handbook provides a rich theoretical framework for working closely with narratives. While much of narrative inquiry focuses on texts, this collection and the work it builds on shifts the focus to an analysis of practice-based social interaction. Covering a wide range of topics, this book will make an important contribution to our understanding of how to analyze the socio-cultural and discursive contexts in which narratives are always embedded." Molly Andrews, Co-Director, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, UK

"The Handbook thoughtfully addresses both the internal structure and the external conditions of accounts, bringing the analysis of stories into the stream of everyday life. A major contribution to the growing interest in this important crossroads of narrative practice, it is interdisciplinary, accessible, and highly recommended." Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri, USA

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. The collection includes chapters that exhibit the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research, as well as essays that address topics traditionally shaped and influenced by narrative inquiry, such as researcher reflexivity, embodiment, story ownership, and chronotopic configurations. Organized thematically to provide a guide for approaching the study of narrative without prescribing a rigid framework for analysis, the Handbook strikes an ideal balance between theoretical framing and the demonstration of specific analytical approaches.

Edited by two leading authorities on narrative research, and pioneers of the practice-based approach to narrative analysis, this Handbook will be an essential resource for anyone interested in better understanding the stories we tell and why we tell them.

"This Handbook provides a rich theoretical framework for working closely with narratives.  Whilte much of narrative inquiry focuses on texts, this collection and the work it builds on shifts the focus to an analysis of practice-based social interaction.  Covering a wode range of topics, this book will make an important contribution to our understanding of how to analyze the socio-cultural and discursive contexts in which narratives are always embedded."
Molly Andrews, Co-Director, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, UK

"The Handbook thoughtfully addresses both the internal structure and the external conditions of accounts, bringing the analysis of stories into the stream of everyday life.  A major contribution to the growing interest in this important crossroads of narrative practice, it is interdisciplinary, accessible, and highly recommended."
Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri, USA