Identity in narrative : a study of immigrant discourse / / Anna De Fina

• Autore: De Fina Anna
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 266 p
• Disciplina: 305.868/72073
• Soggetto topico: Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity; Mexican Americans - Languages; Mexican Americans - Social conditions; Immigrants - United States - Language; Immigrants - United States - Social conditions; Narration (Rhetoric); Discourse analysis
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Identity in Narrative -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Overview of the volume -- Identity in Narrative -- Identity in narrative -- Introduction -- 1. Narrative genre and types of narratives -- 2. Identity and narrative -- Lexical level -- Textual/Pragmatic level -- Interactional level -- 3. Local and global contexts -- The social phenomenon -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican undocumented immigrants to the United States -- 1.1. Number and origin of Mexican undocumented workers in the U.S. -- 1.2. Reasons for migrating and sociocultural characteristics of Mexican immigrants -- 1.3. The migration process -- 2. The subjects of the study -- 2.1. Life in the United States -- 3. The Intertextual domain: Public discourse on immigration -- 4. Notes on methodology and data -- 4.1. The interviews -- 4.2. Data selection and transcription -- Identity as social orientation -- Introduction -- 1. Pronominal choice and speaker-orientation -- 2. Pronominal choice and cultural conceptions of the self -- 3. Personal and collective protagonists in narratives of personal experience -- 4. Pronominal distribution in story clauses -- 5. Pronominal switches and repair -- 6. Depersonalization in stories: From yo to uno and tu -- 7. Generalization of experience and story codas -- 8. Conclusions -- Identity as agency -- Introduction -- 1. Reported speech in narrative -- 2. Chronicles as a type of narrative -- 3. Crossing the border -- 4. Reported speech in the chronicles -- 5. Coding of reported speech acts -- 6. Analysis: Individual chronicles -- 6.1. Reported speech and power -- 6.2. Interactional positioning -- 7. Analysis: Collective chronicles -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusions -- Identity as categorization -- Introduction -- 1. Categories of identification: Ethnicity. ; 2. Immigrants and social practices of categorization -- 3. Functions of orientation and detail in stories -- 4. Interactional world relevance of ethnic descriptions -- 5. Story world relevance of ethnic identifications -- 6. Irrelevant mentions? -- 7. Ethnic identities in interactional and story world contexts -- 8. Conclusions -- Identity as social representation -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnicity: Some definitions -- 2. Identity as representation -- 3. Being Hispanic in different story worlds: The chronicles -- 4. Being Hispanic in different story worlds: Experiences after settlement -- 5. Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Introduction -- 1. Social roles, agency and membership into communities -- 2. Storytelling, discourse, identity -- 3. Concluding remarks and perspectives for future research -- Appendix 1. Interview log -- Translation -- Appendix 2. -- Transcription conventions -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- The series STUDIES IN NARRATIVE.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and chronicles of their border crossings into the United States. Embracing a view of identity as a construct firmly grounded in discourse and interaction, the author examines and illustrates the multiple threads that connect the local expression and negotiation of identity to the wider social contexts that frame the experience of migration, from material conditions of life in the United States to mainstream discourses about race and color. The analysis reveals how identities emerge in discourse through the interplay of different levels of expression, from implicit adherence to narrative styles and ways of telling, to explicit negotiation of membership categories.
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity in Narrative
• ISBN: 90-272-9612-X; 9786612255335; 1-282-25533-9; 1-4237-6636-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808572403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in narrative ; ; v. 3.