Investigating ‘care leaver’ identity: A narrative analysis of personal experience stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Evans
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Care Leaver ◽  
Personal Experience Stories ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract People who spent time in public care as children are often represented as ‘care leavers’. This paper investigates how ‘care leaver’ is discursively constructed as a group identity, by analyzing 18 written personal experience stories from several charity websites by people identified or who self-identify as care leavers. Several approaches to narrative analysis are used: a clause-level analysis based on Labovʼs code scheme; the identification of turning points; an analysis of ‘identity work’; and an analysis of subject positions relative to ‘master narratives’. The findings from each of the methods are then combined to reveal how intertextual, narrative-structural, and contextual factors combine to constitute a common care leaver discourse. This forms the basis for a characterization of ‘care leaver’ group identity as ‘survivors of the system’. The findings also reveal how ‘care leaver’ as type, including stereotype, influences how identity is constructed in the personal experience narratives.

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 Gringo/a as Sociolinguistic Fractal

Ethnologies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie C. Kane ◽  
Harriet E. Manelis Klein
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Fractal Character ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Socially Situated

The polysemic term “gringo” inevitably mediates the negotiation of cultural identity for anthropologists carrying out fieldwork in Latin America. Drawing on experiences from the authors’ interactions in pursuit of professional goals, this analysis shows how nation, religion, gender, race, and the histories of colonization, migration, and alliance emerge and recede in kaleidoscopic encounters between hemispheric stereotypes and cross-cultural travelers. The intertwined personal experience narratives of ‘gringo-hood’ we present reveal the fractal character of knowledge and experience. This article, therefore, shows how linguistic, cultural, and especially folkloric interactions mediate the various dimensions of our socially situated experiences and the different forms of talk we encountered.

The “estate topos” in the works of representatives of the “peasant concord” group

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Skorokhodov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Long Time

“Estate topos” is usually considered in the works of authors who had estates or for a long time were living in estates of their relatives and friends. Significantly less attention is paid to the characterization of the “estate topos” in the texts of the authors, who, due to class restrictions, were not the owners of the estates and their frequent guests. In the literature of the Russian Silver Age, these are primarily the poets of the “peasant concord” group: N. Klyuev, S. Ese nin, A. Shiryaevets, S. Klychkov and oth- ers. For them, the most important and often the earliest in time of development of the source of knowledge about the Russian estate was Russian literature. The poets got an idea of estate complexes from personal experience. Elements of these complexes become symbols, each of which has a semantic filling formed over a long period. Revolutionary events of 1917–1921 lead to the rapid death of the estate world. If Klyuev in the early post-revolutionary years welcomed this process, then for Shiryaevets the Russian estate is inseparable from peasant life, Esenin is characterized by the transfer of elements of landlord complexes to the space of the peasant estate, in the heritage of Klychkov, like some other authors, an important role is played by a garden connected not only with the landowner estate, but also with peasant life, with the Garden of Eden.

scholarly journals Phenomenological-narrative contributions to understand the narrative strategies that shape the autobiographical account throughout different moments of the therapeutic process

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Gabriel Duero ◽  
Francisco Javier Osorio Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Narrative Functions ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts ◽  
Problematic Experiences ◽  
Process Structure

Different studies suggest that the strategies and narrative styles that people use to construct their autobiographical accounts have repercussions on their self-organization, as well as on their identity experience and their conception of the world. Empirical evidence supports changes in different aspects related to process, structure, and content in the narrative of clients during the course of the therapeutic process; these, in turn, seem to condition the course and the results of the process. In this paper we will seek to show, based on a case study and through the application of a method of phenomenological-narrative analysis, what are the predominant narrative strategies that a client uses in order to shape her autobiographical narrative in the initial and final moments of her psychotherapeutic process. Our data suggest that the narrative strategies at the beginning and end of the therapy are qualitatively differentiable. Changes are observed in the plot of the respective accounts, as well as a differentiated mode in the use of narrative functions. More specifically toward the end of psychotherapy, the client makes a deeper characterization of herself and others, based on predicates of a subjectivating, interpretive, and evaluative-reflective kind. She also predominantly uses proconcluding metacomments, which could facilitate the integration of problematic experiences. In summary, our data suggest that after a successful therapeutic process the client uses more complex and integrated narrative strategies for the construction of her autobiographical account.

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