Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse (2003), and co-editor of many volumes, among which Discourse and Identity (2006) with M. Bamberg and D. Schiffrin. She has published widely on topics related to migrant and transnational communities, superdiversity, identities, and narrative.

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, King's College, London, UK. She has developed small stories research, a paradigm for the analysis of everyday life stories and their role in the (re)formation of social relations of intimacy and in youth and gender identity politics. Her latest research is on the mobilization of small stories on social media as part of the ERC project, 'Life-writing of the moment: The sharing and updating self on social media'.

Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou are longstanding collaborators on narrative research. In addition to this Handbook, they have co-authored Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (2012) and they are currently co-editing The Handbook of Discourse Studies. They are also co-editors (with Ruth Page) of 'Narrative, Interaction and Discourse'.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.
* Organized thematically to provide an accessible guide for how to engage with narrative without prescribing a rigid analytic framework
* Represents established modes of narrative analysis juxtaposed with innovative new methods for conducting narrative research
* Includes coverage of the latest advances in narrative analysis, from work on social media to small stories research
* Introduces and exemplifies a practice-based approach to narrative analysis that separates narrative from text so as to broaden the field beyond the printed page

Transcription Conventions vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Part I Narrative Foundations: Knowledge, Learning, and Experience 19
1 Narrative as a Mode of Understanding: Method, Theory, Praxis 21
Mark Freeman
2 Story Ownership and Entitlement 38
Amy Shuman
3 Narrating and Arguing: From Plausibility to Local Moves 57
Isolda E. Carranza
4 Narrative, Cognition, and Socialization 76
Masahiko Minami
5 Narrative Knowledging in Second Language Teaching and Learning Contexts 97
Gary Barkhuizen
Part II Time-Space Organization 117
6 Narrative and Space/Time 119
Mike Baynham
7 Chronotopes: Time and Space in Oral Narrative 140
Sabina Perrino
8 Narratives Across Speech Events 160
Stanton Wortham and Catherine R. Rhodes
9 Analyzing Narrative Genres 178
Matti Hyvärinen
Part III Narrative Interaction 195
10 Narrative as Talk-in-Interaction 197
Charles Goodwin
11 Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Reflexivity and Narrative Research 219
Catherine Kohler Riessman
12 The Role of the Researcher in Interview Narratives 239
Stef Slembrouck
13 Small Stories Research: Methods - Analysis - Outreach 255
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Part IV Stories in Social Practices 273
14 Narratives and Stories in Organizational Life 275
Yiannis Gabriel
15 Narrative, Institutional Processes, and Gendered Inequalities 293
Susan Ehrlich
16 Narratives in Family Contexts 311
Cynthia Gordon
17 The Narrative Dimensions of Social Media Storytelling: Options for Linearity and Tellership 329
Ruth Page
Part V Performing Self, Positioning Others 349
18 Narrative and Identities 351
Anna De Fina
19 Positioning 369
Arnulf Deppermann
20 Narrative and Cultural Identities: Performing and Aligning with Figures of Personhood 388
Michele Koven
21 Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives 408
Dorien Van De Mieroop
22 Narrative Bodies, Embodied Narratives 429
Emily Heavey
Index 447