“It's Better Life Here Than There”
Elasticity and Ambivalence in Narratives of Personal Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21203333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doris S Warriner (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-32 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Multilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1931-3152 • E-ISSN: 1931-3160 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19313152.2013.747421 |
| OpenAlex | W2039989866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article investigates when and how narratives of personal experience and displacement reference and characterize dimensions of time and space, with a focus on how temporal elasticity might serve as an interactional resource. Examining the dynamic, situated, and intertwined nature of such narratives, the analysis looks at how past–present–future/there–here experiences are described and characterized in the qualitative research interview. By illuminating the ways in which temporal elasticity and temporal border crossing are dynamic, emergent, and dialogic resources for the narrator, the analysis demonstrates a powerful way to investigate the experiences of simultaneity (Levitt & Glick Schiller, 2008 Levitt, P. and Glick Schiller, N. 2008. “Conceptualizing simultaneity: A transnational social field perspective on society”. In The transnational studies reader: Intersections and innovations, Edited by: Khagram, S. and Levitt, P. 284–294. New York, NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) that accompany movement (of people, ideas, and practices) across spatial and temporal borders
Ambivalence · Dialogic · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Pedagogy · Simultaneity · Situated · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Discourse and Identity
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Theorizing Qualitative Research Interviews in Applied Linguistics
Self-presentation in L2 Interview Talk
The Interview as Collaborative Achievement
Interview ‘Problems’ as Topics for Analysis†
Indeterminacy and Interview Research
The Active Interview
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
A Matter of Time
Narratives in space and time
Crossing borders
Plotting the “right place” and the “right time”
Investigating Narrative Inequality
Introduction
Across the Scales of Time
Narrating the Self
Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics
Introduction
Comparing stories told in sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous conversation
Chronotopes of story and storytelling event in interviews
Researcher and informant roles in narrative interactions
Interviews as interactional data
Migration, Sociolinguistic Scale, and Educational Reproduction
Super-diversity and its implications
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |