ISBN:
9789027296122
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.86872073
Keywords:
Discourse analysis
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Immigrants ; United States ; Language
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Immigrants ; United States ; Social conditions
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Mexican Americans ; Ethnic identity
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Mexican Americans ; Languages
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Mexican Americans ; Social conditions
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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