Detailed and Succinct Self-Portraits of Addicts in Broadcast Stories

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ID5966065
AutoresDavid W Green (0000-0001-7152-1485, Bar-Ilan University, autor correspondente), David Green (0000-0002-5571-5965, Bar-Ilan University), Irit Kupferberg (LEVINSKY COLLEGE)
Ano2000
Volume2
Fascículo3
Páginas305-322
Data de publicação2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445600002003003
OpenAlexW2034457394
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas36

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

Art · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Narrative · Paralanguage · Portrait · Self · Visual arts · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence