Detailed and succinct self-portraits of addicts in broadcast stories  

Oleh:

Green, David ; Kupferberg, Irit (Co-Author)

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 3 (Aug. 2000), page 305-322.
Topik: Addicts’ broadcast stories; organizing metaphors; selfportraits
Fulltext: 305DES23.pdf (93.29KB)

Isi artikel

Narrative discourse offers a viable perspective on sociocultural, psychological and professional dimensions of the self. Following Labov’s early definition of evaluation, current studies explore linguistic and paralinguistic evaluative devices which participants in discourse use to present and construct their self. Organizing metaphors are a global evaluative device often used in broadcast personal stories to summarize local lexical and syntactic repetition. These metaphors constitute succinct self-portraits which facilitate interpersonal communication in a speech situation which is limited in time, and lacking in kinesic cues and shared knowledge. The present psycholinguistic study further explores the functions of organizing metaphors in addicts’ broadcast stories, a narrative subgenre which until now has not been studied. Qualitative data analysis shows that addicts use various evaluative devices and ‘conspiracies’ of devices when they construct their detailed self-portraits. We also identified organizing metaphors which summarized the detailed narrative portrait, and constituted succinct versions of the addicted self.

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