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Narratives in Action:
A Strategy for Research and Analysis
Stanton Wortham
Foreword by Kenneth G. Gergen
Counseling and Development
Pub Date: April 2001, 208 pages
Paperback: $28.95, ISBN: 0807740756
Cloth: $56, ISBN: 0807740764
 
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“Narrative permeates everyday conversation and is fundamental to teaching and learning. Wortham shows us what writers of fiction and drama have long known—that character is both revealed and constructed in the activity of conversation. His vivid examples illustrate our capacity to know and be known to one another in speech.”
–Susan Florio-Ruane, Michigan State University“Rigorous yet readable, Wortham’s tour de force transcends the usual boundaries of narrative discourse to reveal new layers of meaning in the performance of autobiographical accounts. This book and the methods it exemplifies should be required reading for all serious narrative scholars.”
–Robert A. Neimeyer, University of Memphis Narrative discourse—in therapy, or with a friend—can construct or transform the narrator’s self. With his sophisticated theoretical and methodological approach, the author provides: - A plausible and systematic account of how narrative self-construction works.
- A dialogic account of self-construction that focuses on the social, cultural, and relational contexts of storytelling.
- A useful, concrete approach to analyzing narrative discourse—providing step-by-step guidance on how to uncover and document meaningful patterns in transcribed narrative data.
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