This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives.
The volume both takes stock of and seeks to advance the development of small stories research by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Michael Bamberg, as a counterpoint to conventional models in narrative studies, one which has accounted for "atypical" yet salient activities in everyday life, such as fragmentation and open-endedness, anchoring onto the present, and co-constructive dimensions in stories and identities. With data from different languages and contexts, emphasis is placed on the analytical aspects of the paradigm toward producing models for the analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and genres of small stories. Chapters on the role and commodification of small stories in digital environments reflect on the paradigm’s recent extension to the analysis of social media communication.
This book will appeal to scholars interested in narrative inquiry and narrative analysis, in such fields as sociolinguistics, literary studies, communication studies, and biographical studies.
This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
ALEX GEORGAKOPOULOU, KORINA GIAXOGLOU, SYLVIE PATRON
Part I Small Stories and Big Stories: Beyond Binaries
The narrative structure of small stories
MONIKA FLUDERNIK
Dialogue, Small Stories, and Exile Identities in Mario Benedetti's Historias
de París
SYLVIE PATRON
Valérie Mréjen: Small Stories Out of Order
CÉCILE DE BARY
Are Small Stories Another Category of Narrating?
BRIAN SCHIFF
Reimagining Personal Stories on Social Media
ANA GARNER
Part II Ways of Telling: Genres and Resources
World Attending in the Urban Landscape: Noticings as Small Stories
LEOR COHEN
Moving Through a Moving (Storied) World: Small Stories and their Contribution
to Ethnographic Studies of Place
WILLIAM KELLEHER
"That Was Rude": Metapragmatic Impoliteness Evaluations in Breaking News
Small Stories
VASILIKI SALOUSTROU
Storying Taken-for-Granted Futureworlds in Hair-Salon Future Busy Stories
RACHEL HEINRICHSMEIER
Projective Small Stories Invoking Policy Paths in Parliamentary Debates:
Narrating
Outcome, Performance, and Responsibilities
HANNA RAUTOJOKI, MARI HATAVARA & MATTI HYVÄRINEN
Part III: Participation & Positioning
Small Stories in Mass Media: Coalescent Themes and Tactics in Trumps Twitter
Pesidency
MICHAEL HUMPHREY
Telling the Small, Fragmented and "In-Complete" About Experiences with Sexual
Violations: Narrative Stancetaking in Feminist Hashtag Storytelling Practices
on Twitter in Sweden
FREDRIK EKLUND
Small Stories in Oral Histories: Multimodal Analyses of Narratives about
Extreme Sensory Experiences
PHILIPP FREYBURGER
Stories (Not) to Be Told: A Glimpse At Resistance Toward Hot Topics in
Psychotherapy
CHRISTOPHER KOPPERMAN
Telling-By-Doing Life As A mother in YouTube Vlogs
MIKKA PERS LENE
Alex Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, and Co-Director of the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, Kings College London. In joint (with Michael Bamberg) and solo work that stretches back to mid-2000s, she developed small stories research as a paradigm for the analysis of everyday life stories and identities.
Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics & English Language at The Open University, UK. She is the author of the research monograph A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning: Small Stories and Affective Positioning by Routledge.
Sylvie Patron is Associate Professor and Research Supervisor, and Head of the Paris Centre for Narrative Matters, Université Paris Cité, France. She was Vice-President, then President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative from 2017 to 2020.
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