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Ulatowski, Joseph. "Self as One and Many Narratives." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13, no. 1 (2021): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp20211313.
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There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues narratives have an important role to play in our lives without it being true that a narrative constitutes and creates the self. My own position is broadly sympathetic with that view, but my interest lies with the question of whether there is truth in the claim that to create one’s self-narrative is to create oneself. I argue that a self-narrative may be multiply realised by the inner self—impressions and emotions—and the outer self—roles in work and life. I take an optimistic attitude to the idea that narrative provides a metaphor that may stimulate insight into the nature of self if we accept a plurality of narrative selves. This paper mines a vein of research on narratives for insights into selves without being bewitched into accepting implausible conclusions.
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Rodrigues, Laís, Alessandra de Sá Mello da Costa, and Marcus Wilcox Hemais. "Three historical narratives on advertising self-control in Brazil." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 13, no. 2 (April 8, 2021): 85–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-03-2020-0013.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how, in three different contexts, the National Council for Advertising Self-Regulation narratively uses its past to build an official history concerning its origins that legitimates advertising self-control as a hegemonic narrative. Design/methodology/approach By using the historical research and the “uses of the past” approach, this study identifies, analyzes and confronts three organizational histories of Conar’s origins (both its official and unofficial versions) in the context of the creation of the Brazilian system of advertising self-regulation. Findings After a thematic analysis of the documentary sources, the narratives on the National Council for Advertising Self-Regulation’s origins and the self-control process were grouped into three versions: the narrative under the military regime: 1976/1980; the narrative during the process of re-democratization of the country: 1981/1991 and the contemporary narrative: from 2005 onwards. These narratives were confronted and, in consequence, provided, each of them, a different interpretation of the context surrounding the creation and justification for advertising self-control. Originality/value The study shows how a consumer defense organization re-historicized its past strategically to gain legitimacy in three different ways through time. It also reveals that organizations strategically use their past to build an intended vision of the future, thus having more agency than the hegemonic literature in management studies usually guarantees. Finally, it exposes the malleability of past narratives through which organizations play a critical role in the ongoing struggle for competing uses of the past. Therefore, the study identifies different organizational stories through time that allow researchers to reflect on several strategic uses of the past by organizations.
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Hardie-Bick, James. "Identity, Imprisonment, and Narrative Configuration." New Criminal Law Review 21, no. 4 (2018): 567–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2018.21.4.567.
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This article addresses the role of self-narratives for coping with the laws of captivity. By focusing on how confinement can disrupt narrative coherence, the intention is to examine the role of self-narratives for interpreting previous events and anticipating future actions. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research on self-identity, imprisonment, and offender narratives, this article highlights how narrative reconstruction can alter our desires, commitments, behavior, beliefs, and values. By (re)telling a story about our lives, it is possible to reinterpret existing circumstances and make new connections between our past, present, and future selves. Whereas research suggests the importance of narrative reconstruction for protecting against a sense of meaninglessness, this article shows how self-narratives have the potential to be empowering and divisive. The final part of the article examines how the narratives inmates construct about themselves and others can serve to legitimize violence against other prisoners.
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Narayanan V, Hari. "Conceptualizing the Self: The Role of Narratives." Balkan Journal of Philosophy 13, no. 1 (2021): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bjp20211314.
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The paper seeks to argue that different ways in which the self is understood, even if radically distinct from one another, are cases of different narratives. This is done by appealing to conceptual metaphor theory. The paper begins by briefly explaining the difference between the minimal and narrative self and then argues that even radically different ways of understanding the self are cases of different narratives arising out of a metaphorical understanding of abstract concepts.
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Budziszewska, Magdalena, and Karolina Hansen. "“Anger Detracts From Beauty”: Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Narratives About Anger." Journal of Adolescent Research 35, no. 5 (April 29, 2019): 635–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0743558419845870.
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In a mixed-design narrative study, we explore how adolescent boys and girls represent experiences of anger and how their narrations are linked to self-esteem and anxiety. Polish teens from three nonurban public schools ( N = 101, 55% female, Mage= 15.5) wrote narrative accounts of their typical anger experience. We use a thematic analysis framework to analyze the patterns in these narratives. Boys and girls told stories within school, family, and relationship contexts. However, boys provided more stories that focused on the theme of everyday incidental instances of anger, whereas girls provided more stories focused on the theme of negative inner experiences. In-depth analysis resulted in the emergence of two complex narrative patterns: Anger as Outburst and Anger as Burden. Anger as Outburst described heated anger related to difficulties in self-control and aggression and was more characteristic of boys. Anger as Burden contained stories of prolonged anger related to negative self-evaluation and was more characteristic of girls. Anger as Burden was also related to higher anxiety and lower self-esteem. We conclude that in the given cultural context, adolescents lack positive narratives to frame their anger adaptively.
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Dunlop, William L., Grace E. Hanley, and Tara P. McCoy. "The narrative psychology of love lives." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 3 (December 5, 2017): 761–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517744385.
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Narrative identity is an internal and evolving story about the self. Individual differences in narrative identity have been found to correspond with several important constructs (e.g., well-being, health behaviors). Here, we examined the nature and correlates of participants’ love life narrative identities. In Study 1, participants provided autobiographical narratives from their love lives and rated their personality traits and authenticity within the romantic domain. In Study 2, participants again provided narratives from their love lives and completed measures assessing their attachment tendencies and relationship contingent self-esteem. Narratives were coded for agency, communion, redemptive imagery, contaminated imagery, affective tone, and integrative complexity. Across our studies, the communion and positive tone in participants’ love life narratives was associated with certain traits, authenticity, attachment tendencies, and relationship contingent self-esteem. These results suggest that love life narrative identity represents a promising construct in the study of functioning within the romantic domain.
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Dunlop, William L., Tara P. McCoy, and Patrick J. Morse. "Self-presentation strategies and narrative identity." Narrative Inquiry 30, no. 2 (May 19, 2020): 343–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18077.dun.
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Abstract Narrative identity is most often assessed via prompts for key autobiographical scenes (e.g., turning points). Here, self-presentation strategies were examined in relation to the content and structure of key scenes. Participants (N = 396) provided narratives of life high points, low points, and turning points from within one of four assessment contexts and completed measures of self-deception positivity (SD) and impression management (IM). Narratives were coded for a series of linguistic (e.g., causation words) and conceptual (e.g., redemption) dimensions. Individual differences in IM corresponded with the linguistic and conceptual content of participants’ low points. This effect was particularly evident among females (as compared to males) and the conceptual content of key scenes in conditions in which participants provided written (as compared to spoken) narrative accounts. These results carry implications for the assessment and analysis of narrative identity.
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Clark, Matthew. "The cognitive turn." Narrative Inquiry 22, no. 2 (December 31, 2012): 405–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.2.11cla.
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Corresponding to the “narrative turn” in the human and cultural sciences, this paper advocates a “cognitive turn” in the study of literary narratives. The representation of the self in literary narratives, for example, is in some ways similar to the representation of the self represented in philosophic, psychological, and sociological theory, but the narrative models extend and enrich the understanding of the self. The tradition of literary narrative includes the monadic, dyadic, and triadic models of the self, as well as representations of agent, patient, experiencer, witness, instrumental, and locative selves. Narrative is thus a kind of worldmaking, and the making of complex worlds, such as the worlds of the self, lead towards narrative.
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Sahrakorpi, Tiia. "Memory, Family, and the Self in Hitler Youth Generation Narratives." Journal of Family History 45, no. 1 (October 23, 2019): 88–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199019880254.
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This article examines how the Hitler Youth generation (born 1925–1933) narrativizes their family stories by analyzing archived memoirs, published memoirs, and school essays from the1947–1949 period. The Hitler Youth generation’s postwar recollections of the National Socialist period vary according to medium and time. Both are key to understanding this generation’s struggle to master the Nazi past on national and personal levels. Using Fivush and Merrill’s expanded concept of ecological systems to study family stories, this article illustrates how archived memoirs transfer family stories intergenerationally. Its key finding is that these narratives act as memory tools to transmit stories of Nazi Germany family life; in turn, this reveals narrative gaps and inconsistences and occasionally the narrator’s inability to cope with compromised family members.
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Roßmann, Maximilian. "Narrative Self-Reference and the Assessment of Knowledge." Journal of Sociocybernetics 15, no. 2 (December 26, 2018): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_jos/jos.201822630.
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The concept of narrative self-reference incorporates selected aspects of literary theory into the theory of self-referential systems. Since cybernetics and systems theory focus mainly on computer-aided metaphors and information, the narrative approach provides a better insight into meaning. Narrative self-reference is the simplified narrative self-image that reflects the system-environment relationship and thereby stabilizes the system. Because the narrative is continuously re-written, continued and entangled in different practices, it provides the flexibility against new and disappointed expectations, and the stability for accountability and planning. Theoretical examples of further institutional, technical, authoritarian and pragmatic dependencies for the constitution of psychic and social systems with means of narrative self-reference are discussed. In summary, this article reflects the negotiating power of narratives by creating system boundaries for collaboration and a common ground for the assessment of knowledge. From this perspective, “post-truth” is not a lack of scientific authority, but more a lack of the virtue of an adequate dealing with narratives.
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Harling Stalker, L. Lynda. "A tale of two narratives." Narrative Inquiry 19, no. 2 (December 16, 2009): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19.2.02har.
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In this article it is argued that two forms of narratives need to be incorporated into narrative research. The first is ontological narratives, which are akin to life histories. The second is epistemological narratives. These latter ones are the stories the researcher is conveying to the reader about a particular social world. When used together, the reader is presented with a rich and compelling telling of a particular place and time. To illustrate this, this article draws on the narrative of Alf, a self-employed craftworker, and the epistemological narrative written by the author.
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Bechler, Janaina, and Edson Luiz André Sousa. "URBAN NARRATIVES: A VIDEO-LETTER PROCESS WITH THE NEWSPAPER BOCA DE RUA." Revista Conhecimento Online 2 (May 28, 2020): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.25112/rco.v2i0.2141.
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ABSTRACTThe present study shares the process of the collective achievement of a video-letter regarding the city of Porto Alegre, made with a group of directors of the Boca de Rua (Street Mouthpiece) newspaper, which is made by the homeless people of Porto Alegre. It highlights a perspective that sees in the narrator of the city its expression, and bets that there is sharing and sociability stemming from the fragments of narratives produced by the multiplicities that compose it. As a basis, it introduces some concepts of narrative and self-narrative, assuming, based on psychoanalytic theory, that the “I” is eccentric to the subject, and that the self exists as a partial construction. Through the authors W. Benjamin, P. Ricoeur, J-M. Gagnebin, J. Butler e J. Lacan, it points out the importance of composing narratives in the assembly of oneself and the city, creating connections when appropriate, or even legitimizing the fragmentary character of the narrative. The article ends by presenting some narratives composed after the recordings made with the group in the locations chosen by them.Keywords: Boca de Rua newspaper. Video-letter. Porto Alegre. Self-narrative. RESUMOO presente estudo compartilha o processo de conquista coletiva de uma vídeo-carta sobre a cidade de Porto Alegre, realizada com um grupo de diretores do jornal Boca de Rua, feito pelos moradores de rua de Porto Alegre. Destaca uma perspectiva que vê no narrador da cidade sua expressão e aposta que há compartilhamento e sociabilidade decorrentes dos fragmentos de narrativas produzidas pelas multiplicidades que a compõem. Como base, introduz alguns conceitos de narrativa e autonarrativa, assumindo, com base na teoria psicanalítica, que o “Eu” é excêntrico ao sujeito e que o “Eu” existe como uma construção parcial. Através dos autores W. Benjamin, P. Ricoeur, J-M. Gagnebin, J. Butler e J. Lacan, ressalta a importância de compor narrativas na assembleia de si e da cidade, criando conexões quando apropriado ou até legitimando o caráter fragmentário da narrativa. O artigo termina apresentando algumas narrativas compostas após as gravações feitas com o grupo nos locais escolhidos por eles.Palavras-chave: Jornal Boca de Rua. Vídeo-carta. Porto Alegre. Autonarrativa.
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Son, Min-young. "Developmental writing via self-discovery -Focused on exploring self-narratives during the narrative therapy." Korean Language and Literature 100 (March 30, 2017): 267–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.21793/koreall.2017.100.267.
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Hogan and Sherman. "The Functionality of Self-Narratives." Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 3, no. 1 (2019): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.26613/esic.3.1.118.
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Maurer, Cara. "Redemptive Self-Narratives about Diversity." Academy of Management Proceedings 2019, no. 1 (August 1, 2019): 17489. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.17489abstract.
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Fishbane, Mona DeKoven. "Relational Narratives of the Self*." Family Process 40, no. 3 (September 2001): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2001.4030100273.x.
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Mackenzie, Catriona, and Jacqui Poltera. "Narrative Integration, Fragmented Selves, and Autonomy." Hypatia 25, no. 1 (2010): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01083.x.
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In this paper we defend the notion of narrative identity against Galen Strawson's recent critique. With reference to Elyn Saks's memoir of her schizophrenia, we question the coherence of Strawson's conception of the Episodic self and show why the capacity for narrative integration is important for a flourishing life. We also argue that Saks's case and reflections on the therapeutic role of “illness narratives” put pressure on narrative theories that specify unduly restrictive constraints on self-constituting narratives, and clarify the need to distinguish identity from autonomy.
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Zahavi, Dan. "Self and Other: The Limits of Narrative Understanding." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 60 (March 2007): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100009668.
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If the self—as a popular view has it—is a narrative construction, if it arises out of discursive practices, it is reasonable to assume that the best possible avenue to self-understanding will be provided by those very narratives. If I want to know what it means to be a self, I should look closely at the stories that I and others tell about myself, since these stories constitute who I am. In the following I wish to question this train of thought. I will argue that we need to operate with a more primitive and fundamental notion of self; a notion of self that cannot be captured in terms of narrative structures. In a parallel move, I will argue that there is a crucial dimension of what it means to be other that is equally missed by the narrative approach. I will consequently defend the view that there are limits to the kind of understanding of self and others that narratives can provide.
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Zahavi, Dan. "Self and Other: The Limits of Narrative Understanding." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 60 (May 2007): 179–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246107000094.
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If the self—as a popular view has it—is a narrative construction, if it arises out of discursive practices, it is reasonable to assume that the best possible avenue to self-understanding will be provided by those very narratives. If I want to know what it means to be a self, I should look closely at the stories that I and others tell about myself, since these stories constitute who I am. In the following I wish to question this train of thought. I will argue that we need to operate with a more primitive and fundamental notion of self; a notion of self that cannot be captured in terms of narrative structures. In a parallel move, I will argue that there is a crucial dimension of what it means to be other that is equally missed by the narrative approach. I will consequently defend the view that there are limits to the kind of understanding of self and others that narratives can provide.
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Pasupathi, Monisha, Robyn Fivush, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, and Kate C. McLean. "Intraindividual Variability in Narrative Identity: Complexities, Garden Paths, and Untapped Research Potential." European Journal of Personality 34, no. 6 (December 2020): 1138–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2279.
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This paper introduces key concepts for studying intraindividual variability in narratives (narrative IIV). Narrative IIV is conceptualized in terms of sources of within–person variation (events and audiences) and dimensions of variation (structural and motivational/affective dimensions of narratives). Possible implications of narrative IIV for well–being and self and social development are outlined. Considering narrative IIV leads to complexity in both theory and method, raising the issue of whether some avenues might be more productive than others. Using previously collected data, we sought to evaluate the research potential of different indices of narrative IIV ( n = 106 participants; n = 1272 narratives). All analyses were preregistered: doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/SXV4W . Findings show that narrative IIV is distinct depending on source and dimension, replicating previous work. However, narrative IIV was largely unrelated to the measures of well–being and self and social development used in the present study. These findings support the practice of aggregating across narratives in existing research, at least for these outcomes and sources of variation, and provide important guidance for investigators who remain interested in the possible insights that narrative IIV may reveal about the person. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology
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Kronsted, Christian, Zachariah A. Neemeh, Sean Kugele, and Stan Franklin. "Modeling Long-Term Intentions and Narratives in Autonomous Agents." Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 08, no. 02 (April 17, 2021): 229–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2705078521500107.
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Across various fields it is argued that the self in part consists of an autobiographical self-narrative and that the self-narrative has an impact on agential behavior. Similarly, within action theory, it is claimed that the intentional structure of coherent long-term action is divided into a hierarchy of distal, proximal, and motor intentions. However, the concrete mechanisms for how narratives and distal intentions are generated and impact action is rarely fleshed out concretely. We here demonstrate how narratives and distal intentions can be generated within cognitive agents and how they can impact agential behavior over long time scales. We integrate narratives and distal intentions into the LIDA model, and demonstrate how they can guide agential action in a manner that is consistent with the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness. This paper serves both as an addition to the LIDA cognitive architecture and an elucidation of how narratives and distal intention emerge and play their role in cognition and action
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Ziller, Robert C. "Self-counselling through re-authored photo-self-narratives." Counselling Psychology Quarterly 13, no. 3 (September 2000): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/095150700300091884.
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Palombo, Joseph. "Neurocognitive differences, self cohesion, and incoherent self narratives." Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal 8, no. 6 (December 1991): 449–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00755234.
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Vice, Samantha. "Literature and the Narrative Self." Philosophy 78, no. 1 (January 2003): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819103000068.
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Claims that the self and experience in general are narrative in structure are increasingly common, but it is not always clear what such claims come down to. In this paper, I argue that if the view is to be distinctive, the element of narrativity must be taken as literally as possible. If we do so, and explore the consequences of thinking about our selves and our lives in this manner, we shall see that the narrative view fundamentally confusues art and life. We learn from art itself that our selves and lives transcend narratives and that thinking in a narrative manner ignores the rich complexity of individual persons.
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Balirano, Giuseppe, Luigi Maria Sicca, and Paolo Valerio. "Call for papers: Self Narratives in Organizations." puntOorg International Journal 1, no. 1 (March 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19245/25.05.cfp.02.
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Transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals are often on the receiving end of discrimination and unfair treatment in the workplace, which can even escalate to violence or complete rejection. Davis (2009), for instance, has highlighted how many TGNC workers feel that their workplace is unsafe or inhospitable. Notwithstanding these difficulties, TGNC people are able to tap into significant personal and collective resources in order to protect themselves from the negative effects of discrimination (Law et al., 2011).In order to better understand the personal and work-related processes linked with being in the workplace as a TGNC individual, it is important to give voice directly to those who live and experience this reality. This is why puntOorg International Journal is collecting self narratives from TGNC individuals who want to tell their stories working in organizations or businesses as transgender or gender non-conforming people, including (but not limited to) issues around transitioning and discrimination.Self narratives will be collected in various countries and will be translated into English, if needs be. This collection of stories will be shared both online and through an international conference to be held in May 2018. Being aware of the sensitivities and confidentiality around self narratives, we are happy to publish stories under pseudonyms or as anonymous narratives. All contributions, which can be written in a very conversational and personal style but should not exceed 5000 words, must be sent to the editors via email at pij@puntoorg.net Please see our deadlines below: Title only to be sent by 30th November 2017 with confirmation of participation; Full narrative to be sent by 15th January 2017
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Dillon, Lisette. "Writing the self." Narrative Inquiry 21, no. 2 (December 31, 2011): 213–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.21.2.03dil.
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While much narrative inquiry is concerned with issues of self and identity, doing study on the processes (the how) of self-making offers ongoing challenges to methodology. This article explores the creation of a dialogic space that assisted young adolescents to write about themselves and their daily lives using email journals as an alternative to face-to-face interviews. With the researcher acting as a listener-responder, and in the absence of researcher-designed questions, a dynamic field was opened up for participant-led self-making to emerge over a six month period of self-reflective written expression. The article describes a shared email relationship based on a dialogic pattern of thinking, writing, listening and response intended to foster participants’ voices as ontological narratives of self. Findings show the use of email journals created a synergy for self-disclosure and a safe space for self-expression where the willingness of participants to be themselves was encouraged. The self-representations of a specific group of gifted young adolescents thus emerged as written versions of “who” they are — offering data that differs from interview approaches and contributing to discussion of the value of ontology narratives.
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Crowell, Rebecca L. Nelson, Julie Hanenburg, and Amy Gilbertson. "Counseling Adolescents With Hearing Loss Using a Narrative Therapy Approach." Perspectives on Administration and Supervision 19, no. 2 (June 2009): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/aas19.2.72.
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Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.
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Westby, Carol, and Barbara Culatta. "Telling Tales: Personal Event Narratives and Life Stories." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 47, no. 4 (October 2016): 260–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2016_lshss-15-0073.
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Purpose Speech-language pathologists know much more about children's development of fictional narratives than they do about children's development of personal narratives and the role these personal narratives play in academic success, social–emotional development, and self-regulation. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide clinicians with strategies for assessing and developing children's and adolescents' personal narratives. Method This tutorial reviews the literature on (a) the development of autobiographical event narratives and life stories, (b) factors that contribute to development of these genres, (c) the importance of these genres for the development of sense of self-identity and self-regulation, (d) deficits in personal narrative genres, and (e) strategies for eliciting and assessing event narratives and life stories. Implications To promote development of personal event narratives and life stories, speech-language pathologists can help clients retrieve information about interesting events, provide experiences worthy of narrating, and draw upon published narratives to serve as model texts. Clinicians can also address four interrelated processes in intervention: reminiscing, reflecting, making coherent connections, and signaling the plot structure. Furthermore, they can activate metacognitive awareness of how evaluations of experiences, coherence, and plot structure are signaled in well-formed personal event narratives and life stories.
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Maagaard, Cindie, and Marianne Wolff Lundholt. "Taking spoofs seriously: Spoofs as counter-narratives in volunteer discourse." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 34, no. 64 (June 14, 2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v34i64.24837.
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This article explores how the theoretical framework of “counter-narrative” can be a resource for the analysis of spoofing videos. Using spoofs deployed by activist organizations to critique Western aid appeals and “voluntourism,” we 1) investigate the intertextual mechanisms of spoof videos as counter-narrative and how spoofers borrow generic conventions and use them to create alternative narratives, and 2) discuss the consequences of their cultural depictions, for example, for the discourse of volunteering, which we examine here, particularly in light of tendencies toward self-reflecting campaigns identified by Chouliaraki (2013). Through these understandings, we draw lessons about the counter-narrative potential of spoofs used as critique and edification and their ambivalent status as counter-narratives. As critiques, they may hold a mirror to viewers’ self-perceptions and motivations. Yet, this self-reflexive strategy carries the risk of self-congratulatory complicity with the genres they seek to critique and the discourses and power relations upon which they depend
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Robertson, Alan, Chris Venter, and Karel Botha. "Narratives of Depression." South African Journal of Psychology 35, no. 2 (June 2005): 331–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630503500210.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the life narratives of a group of self-identified depressed individuals. A qualitative research approach, specifically a multiple case study method was used, consisting of interviews in narrative format with people who were suffering from depression. The common themes seemed to be: the participants attached negative meanings to their life experiences; they used negative language, particularly in the form of generalisations, to articulate their stories; and they found socio-political narratives to be subjugating. The study suggested that a narrative approach to therapy could be fruitful in the treatment of depression, especially through helping people to find positive meanings for life experiences; re-authoring life narratives using fewer negative generalisations; confronting and transcending subjugating political stories; assisting the individual to discover and build upon unique outcomes; and encouraging the extemalisation of depression.
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Koutri, Ifigeneia, and Evrinomy Avdi. "The suspended self: Liminality in breast cancer narratives and implications for counselling." European Journal of Counselling Psychology 5, no. 1 (December 23, 2016): 78–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejcop.v5i1.92.
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In the field of chronic and serious illness, meaning-making with regards to the illness experience has been shown to be a core process for patients. This study focuses on women's narratives of their experiences of living with breast cancer. Within the framework of narrative psychology, illness narratives are considered to provide the main means through which patients make sense of their illness experience and construct its place in their life story. In this paper, we present findings from a narrative study that aimed to explore the different meanings that breast cancer holds for Greek women. In the broader study, four basic narrative types about breast cancer emerged from the analysis. In this paper, we focus on one of these narrative types, in which illness is constructed as an entrance into a state of liminality and where the women's sense of self seems to be “suspended”. The core features of this narrative type are described and arguments are developed regarding its usefulness. We argue that this is a narrative type that deserves further attention, particularly as it seems to reflect a socially non-preferred storyline, which might result in these women's stories being sidestepped or silenced. The implications of this narrative type for healthcare and counselling in cancer care are discussed.
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Zahavi, Dan. "Subjektivitet og narrativitet." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 34, no. 101 (April 2, 2006): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v34i101.22326.
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Subjectivity and narrativityIf the self – as a popular view has it – is a narrative construction, if it arises out of discursive practices, it is reasonable to assume that the best possible avenue to self-understanding will be provided by those very narratives. If I want to know what it means to be a self, I should look closely at the stories that I and others tell about myself, since these stories constitute who I am. In the following I wish to question this train of thought. I will argue that we need to operate with a more primitive and fundamental notion of self; a notion of self that cannot be captured in terms of narrative structures. In a parallel move, I will argue that there is a crucial dimension of what it means to be ‘other’ that is equally missed by the narrative approach. I will consequently defend the view that there are limits to the kind of understanding of self and others that narratives can provide.
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Luig, Thea, Louanne Keenan, and Denise L. Campbell-Scherer. "Transforming Health Experience and Action through Shifting the Narrative on Obesity in Primary Care Encounters." Qualitative Health Research 30, no. 5 (October 16, 2019): 730–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732319880551.
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We sought to understand the impact of primary care conversations about obesity on people’s everyday life health experience and practices. Using a dialogic narrative perspective, we examined key moments in three very different clinical encounters, the patients’ journals, and follow-up interviews over several weeks. We trace how people living with obesity negotiate narrative alternatives that are offered during clinical dialogue to transform their own narrative and experience of obesity and self. Findings provide pragmatic insights into how providers can play a significant role in shifting narratives about obesity and self and how such co-constructed narratives translate into change and tangible health outcomes in people’s lives.
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Kyratzis, Amy. "Narrative Identity." Narrative Inquiry 9, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 427–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.9.2.10kyr.
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Recently, researchers have been interested in narrative as a conversational point-making activity. Some of the features of narrative (e.g., its "objectivity", Benveniste, 1971) render it ideally suited for self-exploration and positioning of the self with respect to societal institutions (Polanyi, 1989), especially in the context of conversations within friendship groups (Coates, 1996). While past research has often focused on self-constructing and political uses of narratives of personal experience, the present study examines such uses with respect to narratives produced during preschoolers' dramatic play in friendship groups. An ethnographic-sociolinguistic study that followed friendship groups in two preschool classrooms of a California university children's center was conducted. Children were videotaped in their two most representative friendship groups each academic quarter. Narrative was coded when children used explicit proposals of irrealis in one of three forms: the marked subjunctive (past tense irrealis marking in English, e.g., "they were hiding"); the paraphrastic subjunctive (unmarked irrealis proposals such as "and I'm shy"); and pretend directives such as "pretend" ("pretend we're Shy Wizards"). Also, instances of character speech were counted as narrative. Children used con-trastive forms (subjunctive, coherence markers vs. absence of subjunctive; pitch variation) to mark different phases within narrative. Collaborative self-construction was seen in the linguistic forms they used (pretend statements; tag questions; "and-elaborations") and in the identities the children constructed for their protagonists. Girls' protagonists suggested they valued qualities of lovingness, graciousness, and attractiveness. The protagonists the boys constructed suggested they valued physical power. Girls had a greater reliance on story for self-construction than boys did. It is notable that the dramatic play narratives produced during children's play in friendship groups serve some of the same functions in positioning participants with respect to one another and exploring possible selves collaboratively with one another that personal experience narratives serve in adult intimate social groups.
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Jarnkvist, Karin, and Lotta Brännström. "Stories of Victimization: Self-Positioning and Construction of Gender in Narratives of Abused Women." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 34, no. 21-22 (November 10, 2016): 4687–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516676474.
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The objective of this article is to analyze how women who have been victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) position themselves in relation to the image of the “ideal victim” and how gender is constructed in that positioning. There is a need for a gender analysis framework to understand how various forms of femininity are constructed and how narratives linked to this can either maintain a woman in an abusive relationship or encourage her to leave. Christie’s theory of the “ideal victim” and Connell’s gender theory are applied in this study, in which the narratives of 14 female IPV victims in Sweden are analyzed using a narrative method. Three strings of narratives, representing different forms of femininity, are revealed in the material. The master narrative of the ideal victim reveals a form of femininity that describes women as inferior in relation to men. In the alternative narrative, the narrator positions herself as inferior in relation to the offender but discusses resistance. She describes herself as a caring mother who risks a great deal to protect her children. In the counter-narrative, the narrator positions herself as strong and independent in relation to the offender and as a strong and caring mother. The positioning of different narrators may shift depending on the duration of the relationship and the type of violence. The narrator may also take different positions during different phases of the story. However, the dominant narrative among the narrators is the story of the caring mother, which may have several functions and can partially be understood as a sign of the strong discourse of motherhood in society. The study contributes to a more profound understanding of the complexity related to women’s own positioning and reveals that awareness is required when attempting to understand the narratives and behavior of abused women.
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van der Hout, Sanne, and Martin Drenthen. "Hunting for Nature’s Treasures or Learning from Nature?: The Narrative Ambivalence of the Ecotechnological Turn." Nature and Culture 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2017.120204.
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Scientists need narrative structures, metaphors, and images to explain and legitimize research practices that are usually described in abstract and technical terms. Yet, sometimes they do not take proper account of the complexity and multilayered character of their narrative self-presentations. This also applies to the narratives of ecotechnology explored in this article: the treasure quest narrative used in the field of metagenomics, and the tutorial narrative proposed by the learning-from-nature movement biomimicry. Researchers from both fields tend to underestimate the general public’s understanding of the inherent ambivalence of the narratives suggested by them; the treasure quest and tutorial narratives build upon larger master narratives that can be found throughout our culture, for instance, in literature, art, and film. We will show how these genres reveal the moral ambivalence of both narratives, using two well-known movies as illustrations: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1940).
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Allé, M., A. D’Argembeau, P. Schneider, J. Potheegadoo, R. Coutelle, J. M. Danion, and F. Berna. "Self-continuity across time in schizophrenia: An exploration of phenomenological and narrative continuity in the past and future." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2117.
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Disorders of the self, such as the “loss of continuity” of the self in time, are a core symptom of schizophrenia, but one, which is still poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated two complementary aspects of self-continuity, namely phenomenological and narrative continuity, in 27 patients with schizophrenia, and compared them with 27 control participants. Participants were asked to identify 7 important past events and to narrate a story taken from their life that included these events. They were then asked to imagine 3 important events that might happen in their personal future and to build a narrative of their future life. The memory vividness of these important life-events and the proportion of self-event connections in the narratives were used as a measure of phenomenological and narrative continuity, respectively. Our results showed that the difficulty for patients to construct vivid representations of personally significant events was observed in both temporal directions, past and future. Patients’ ability to establish explicit connections between personal events and attributes of self in life narratives was also impaired, but only in the case of past narratives. Our results yield a fresh understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of self-disorders in schizophrenia. The clinical and therapeutic implications of these findings are discussed.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Ho, Judy W. Y. "The cultural significance of coda in Chinese Narratives." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24, no. 2 (January 1, 2001): 61–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.24.2.05ho.
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Abstract In Western studies of narrative, Complication, Resolution and Evaluation have received a substantial amount of attention whereas Coda is regarded as an optional and relatively insignificant element. This paper analyzes narratives written by Grade 5/6 students in Hong Kong and investigates some of the contextual factors which help to shape the production and interpretation of these narrative texts. Findings suggest that the functions of Coda are culture-specific. In Chinese narratives, Coda is an obligatory element. It is important because of its role as a carrier of value-laden messages. It is the locus where the social purpose of Chinese narrative is stated, and where the cultural meaning of narrative texts is expressed. It provides a mechanism through which a process of self-reflection and self-discovery is instated so that what one experiences in the external world is given some significance. This process of self-discovery is extended to others through processes of moralization and generalization so that a general discovery of truth will result. The paper also demonstrates how the significance of Coda is conveyed through teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices.
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Strong, Tom, and Sarah Knight. "Agency and dialogic tension in co-editing more preferred narratives." Narrative Inquiry 22, no. 1 (December 31, 2012): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.1.13str.
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As narrative therapists and researchers we are interested in how conversations invite co-authoring and co-editing possibilities to develop self-narratives preferred by our partners in dialogue. ‘Problem saturated stories’ acquire their dominance and self-defining plausibility through unquestioned personal and cultural conversations. Questions and responsive dialogues, however, can invite consideration and elaboration of previously implausible plotlines and discourses pertaining to self-narratives. Accordingly, we report on processes and outcomes from research conversations with volunteers who self-identified as having been sexually abused, and who joined Sarah in co-authoring and co-editing ‘small stories’ of healthy intimacy after the abuse.
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Cierpka, Anna. "Narrative Identity of Adolescents and Family Functioning." Psychology of Language and Communication 18, no. 3 (November 1, 2014): 263–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0018.
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ABSTRACT The paper presents research conducted within the narrative psychology paradigm. Its main purpose was to explore the relationships between features of adolescents’ identity narratives and their assessments of family functioning and themselves as family members. The choice of subject was motivated by current reports on identity formation difficulties in adolescence. Adolescents’ narratives were subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. Associations between specific aspects of self-narratives and participants’ perceptions of how their families functioned and how they functioned in the family system were evaluated. The results confirm the hypothesized relationships between the features of adolescents’ narratives and evaluations of their families and self-assessments of their own functioning in those families. Multi-thematic, content-rich and positively evaluated self-narratives are associated with positive assessments of selected aspects of family functioning and adolescents’ own functioning within the family. The following aspects of family assessment are significant: affective expression, level of emotional involvement in the family, level of control, family role performance and communication. Important factors in the self-assessment were: sense of competence in family role performance, assessment of one’s communication, behavior control and affective expression.
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ITO, Tomoki. "Interpreting Self-Narratives of Parkinson's Disease." Japanese Sociological Review 61, no. 1 (2010): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4057/jsr.61.52.
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Ilinskaya, Svetlana. "Russian self-identification post-Soviet narratives." Polylogos 3, no. 3 (9) (2019): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s258770110007543-9.
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Martin, Chris William. "Tattoos as Narratives: Skin and Self." Public Journal of Semiotics 4, no. 2 (February 1, 2013): 2–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2013.4.8841.
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This article explores the polysemic nature of contemporary tattoos by comparing interviewees‘ perceptions of the meanings of their tattoos with the meanings which can be imputed to them by a researcher studying cultural history and semiotics. After systematically comparing the referencing and mapping of tattoos by interviewees in St. John‘s, Newfoundland, the author argues that tattoos should be viewed in a light that reflects the endless potential of human self-expression. Part of this statement is meant to address the structure-agency dichotomy which has long been reflected in the literature on sociological theories and the tattooing/body literature. Another part is meant to give substantive evidence to the claim that regardless of motivations or meanings, the truth behind meaning and identity can only be found in complex and ephemeral moments which populate the life of the cultural and individual actor.
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Webb, Patricia R. "Narratives of self in networked communications." Computers and Composition 14, no. 1 (January 1997): 73–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s8755-4615(97)90039-6.
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Arons, Bernard S. "Hidden Self-Harm: Narratives from Psychotheraphy." American Journal of Psychotherapy 58, no. 4 (October 2004): 448–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2004.58.4.448.
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Heynders, Odile. "Speaking the Self, Narratives on Srebrenica." European Journal of Life Writing 3 (January 17, 2014): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.3.43.
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In this article, various life narratives documenting the fall of the Srebrenica enclave in July 1995 will be discussed and analyzed. The fundamental question underlying the reading of these narratives is ‘How do separate stories construct the memory of a European locus, offering an understanding of a geopolitical space as build on interchangeable voices’? The larger context within which this paper is written is my research on the symbolization of Europe: to get a grip on the European reality and culture we need to analyze and interpret narratives in the light of and with regard to the historical facts, their impact, and the collective and suppressed memories involved.
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DIMAGGIO, GIANCARLO, GIANPAOLO SALVATORE, CRISTINA AZZARA, and DARIO CATANIA. "REWRITING SELF-NARRATIVES: THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS." Journal of Constructivist Psychology 16, no. 2 (April 2003): 155–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720530390117920.
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FULLAGAR, SIMONE, and KATHRYN OWLER. "Narratives of Leisure: Recreating the self." Disability & Society 13, no. 3 (June 1998): 441–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599826731.
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Depretto, Catherine. "Self-narratives under communism (mainly USSR)." Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 121 (October 1, 2015): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.3565.
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Krug, Maximilian. "Erzählen inszenieren:." Linguistik Online 104, no. 4 (November 15, 2020): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.104.7303.
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Narrating is a crucial activity in theatre rehearsals. Through this activity, narratives are performed, expanded, reinterpreted, or even completely improvised. The communicative practices used by theatre professionals to develop a play as a theatrical narrative have rarely been researched, both in linguistics and theatre studies. Therefore, this paper addresses how actors, directors, and other members of a theatre production collectively develop monologues as self-contained narratives within a play. The research focuses on how narrators and listeners, as an interactional ensemble, use multimodal actions to realize such monologues. Surprisingly, the co-narrators don’t appear to imagine their future audience but construct the narrations in situ with and for the present members. This observation especially becomes evident when mobile eye-tracking glasses measure the co-narrators’ gaze behavior. It shows that members of a theatre rehearsal perform different activities (e. g., improvising, reading, prompting, instructing, discussing, monitoring) with regard to local interactional requirements. This paper illustrates the procedures with which theatre-makers produce monologues as multimodal narratives and highlights the differences that distinguish such narratives in theatre from spontaneous everyday storytellings.