Narratives in Illness
A Methodological Note
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars-Christer Hydén (0000-0002-3033-9879, Narrative (Sweden), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 49-58 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | University of Lodz Press (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.4.3.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4205119131 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
As a result of the general growth in the interest in narratives different conception of what a story is and how to analyze has emerged. One especially interesting and methodological relevant difference is between the conception of narratives as textual objects and narratives as part of a storytelling event. The paper discusses the theoretical differences between these two analytical approaches to narratives. An example from my own research on Alzheimer’s patients telling stories illustrate the possibilities of using a performative and micro ethnographic approach to the study of storytelling in order to understand the functions of narratives – especially in relation to identity work. If stories not only are thought of as representations of events it becomes possible to view stories and story telling as social action: social states are both established, negotiated and changed through stories. This is especially important in the field of health and illness where diseases almost always are embedded in conversations and the telling of why and how symptoms were discovered or traumas received. For many patients and persons with especially communicative disabilities story telling is a challenge, but also an opportunity to actually master, maintain and often transform their identities
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Performative utterance · Relation (database · Sociology · Storytelling · Anthropology · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Narrative Fiction
Story, Performance, and Event
The performance turn in narrative studies
The Construction and Deconstruction of Self in Alzheimer's Disease
In dialogue with time
Confabulation
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics
Merely Telling Stories? Narrative and Knowledge in the Human Sciences
A Competent Speaker Who Can't Speak
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2016 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |