The big story about small stories: Narratives of crime and terrorism  

Oleh:

Wilson, John ; Stapleton, Karyn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 3 (Jun. 2010), page 287-312.
Topik: Big stories; small stories; narrative; interview; contextual naturalism; observer’s paradox
Fulltext: Wilson_John.pdf (156.3KB)

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The ‘big story/small story’ distinction has emerged as a discrete approach to narrative analysis. Proponents of this approach are critical of the ‘big stories’ elicited by structural analysts,which they see as highly structured narratives of past experiences, typically elicited in an interview context. In contrast, they highlight the importance of studying the fragmented, contextualised ‘small stories’ that arise in everyday conversation/interaction. We question the basis of this distinction and we suggest that it unnecessarily proliferates analytic categories. Further, we suggest that the methodologies followed by ‘small stories’ analysts are often similar to those used to elicit ‘big stories’ and arehenceopentosimilar criticisms; in particular,afailure to fully consider the issue of (contextual) naturalism. Drawing on interviews of crime/terrorism in Northern Ireland, we show how these data comprise both ‘big stories’ and ‘small stories’ within the same context and often within the same narrative.

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