1. Friday Afternoon Narrative Analysis: Working with Narratives Exercise 1 –The Davie Hogan Story 4 boys sitting around a campfire, negotiating a story - told by GORDIE --- TRANSCRIPT 1 Exercise 2 –Betty Tells Her Story Betty tells the story when she lost her dress, but she tells her story twice --- TRANSCRIPT 2

2. history of narrative research Narratology Narratives as tools for cognitive…. Psychology Narrative in the Social sciences Across disciplines

3. Three Kinds of Narrative Approaches to the Study of Self and Identity Life-Story Approaches Life-Event Approaches “Small” Stories –Short narrative accounts –Embedded in every-day interactions –Unnoticed as ‘stories’ by the participants –Unnoticed as ‘narratives’ by researchers –But highly relevant for identity formation processes

4. Stories about a third person other: the Davie Hogan story “Positioning with Davie Hogan. Stories, Tellings & Identities” Chapter in: C. Daiute & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Narrative analysis: Studying the development of individuals in society. London: Sage. (2003)

5. Work with Transcripts - EXERCISE 1 The Davie Hogan Story –Two versions ( written after watching the movie clip ) Version A Version B What goes on BEFORE the story –Negotiation of story-telling rights –Negotiation of story content What goes on AFTER the story –Negotiation of “story-understanding” –Negotiation of identities + social bonding

6. Davie Hogan

7. Work with Transcripts - EXERCISE 2 Betty Tells Her Story A story about Betty buying a dress for the ball, looking and feeling in it as beautiful as never before; then losing the dress before she can wear or show it –Version A –Version B How do the two versions differ? What MAKES them different? WHAT ARE WE ANALYZING HERE?

8. Version A -------------- Version B Betty tells her story

9. Episode/Segment Trying on my new dress at the Deephalis house Version A: –Lines 77-117 Version B: –Lines 70-110 Microanalysis of the two versions: two different kinds of positionings

10. SUMMARY of exercise 1 + 2 What can we summarize (thus far) regarding narratives as a ‘window’ (= heuristic) into people’s constructions of their ‘sense-of-self’? How can this tool be used for cultural/cross- cultural research? What can we learn from the ‘microanalysis’ of small segments?