Aspects of voice in the use of positioning in polyphonic storytelling: Ventriloquial moves within a biographical interview

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Hanna Rautajoki ◽  
Matti Hyvärinen
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Recent Theory ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Group Interests

This article investigates the rhetorical use of voices and ventrilocution in occasioned storytelling. We explore the use of external voicing in the narration, arguing that to understand voice as an argumentative resource, it is important to include both material and metaphoric aspects of voice. Our article explicates the differences and relations between these two aspects in a polyphonic life story interview. The material voice involves the acoustic sphere of communication: prosody, intonation and tone, whereas the metaphoric voice is commonly understood as a marker of subjectivity or group interests. We juxtapose the latter ‘representative’ interpretation of voice by applying Richard Walsh’s recent theory of metaphorical levels of the voice. Our material consists of a biographical interview with a 92-year-old woman accompanied in the situation by her daughter. The daughter interferes in the interview by telling competing stories about the family past. To unravel the rhetorical moves in the interview, we apply the concept of ventriloquism and the theory of narrative positioning. Our analysis demonstrates how the purposeful use of the material voice transports and signifies metaphoric voices as characters, actors and identities are negotiated in turn-by-turn unfolding narration.

scholarly journals Life Stories of Parents with Autistic Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Oya Onat Kocabıyık ◽  
Yeşim Fazlıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Coping Skill ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

The major aim of this study was to determine how children diagnosed with autism shapes their parents’ lives by specifying parents’ life stories. The study group consisted of 10 parents who have children with autism. Parents who have participated in the study were determined through a preliminary interview prior to the study and in-depth interviews were conducted with volunteer parents. In the study, "Life Story Interview" list was implemented to examine the content of life stories that shape parents’ lives. The data obtained from the research were analyzed using data analysis phases of interpretative phenomenology which is one of the qualitative research models. By analyzing the data obtained in the research, 10 major themes emerged. These major themes include; diagnosis, feeling, hopes and plans, concerns and questions, social reactions / stigmatization, parenting roles, coping with, sensitivity to disease, meaning of life and development. Analyses revealed that parents with autistic children undergo through a wide variety of emotions, challenges and difficulties during their daily lives and also that good coping skill is the key to normal functioning within the family which had an autistic child.

Dramatis Personae

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Mitchell Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Official Records

This chapter introduces the family: father Edmund, a shoemaker turned bookseller, and his three or four wives, their social and religious status, questions of literacy and formal education. The children are introduced more or less in their birth order: Kezia, Ebenezer, Manoah, Job, and Charity. The difficulties of tracing women is discussed. Particular attention is paid to Kezia, who was the subject of one of Ebenezer’s astrological cases, and Charity, who left a decades-long trail through official records, marking her as one of the most economically savvy members of the family. Since many of the Sibly men took shorthand, there is a brief discussion of contemporary shorthand uses, accuracy, and to what extent shorthand takers preserved the voice of the speaker. Ebenezer’s daughter Urania is also introduced, though like Ebenezer and Manoah, she has her own chapter later in the work

scholarly journals Style features of recoding the personal life-story in autobiographical memory as a result of intra-familial transmission

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
A.R. Alyusheva
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Stable Family ◽  
System Characteristics ◽  
Individual Style

We studied the stylistic features of autobiographical memory structure which can be significant for the understanding the sources of intrapersonal propensity for deviant behavior among young people. From the standpoint of the Vygotsky's theory we studied 102 "parent-teenager" dyads in order to examine the mechanisms of cultural determination of autobiographical memory macrostructure in context of reproducing the life scenarios. We differentiate the social influences of various levels on the formation of system characteristics of autobiographical memory, which constitute individual style of fixation personal stories of the past. We have found а stable family-reproduced indicators of autobiographical memories belonging to the "family life" scenario, these include the emotional profile of the memories of lives, the level of scenario (fixation of socially approved events); representation of memories of other people (social orientation). The low values of these indicators can be the risk factors for asocial behavior.

The ‘Lyric I’

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-80
Author(s):  
Carmen Bugan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

There are two aspects of personal identity that often clash in the artistic process originating in oppression; they destabilize the voice of the ‘lyric I’. This chapter raises several questions about the relationship between personal biography and the construction of a lyric speaker, and explores the notion of a poetics that insists on healing the damage that politics does to the family; it discusses what happens when private and public identities become conflated because of politics, and how poetry ‘acts’ on the sense of family as a social microcosm where the conflict between the sense of the political self and the private self takes place.

The role of grandparents when parents part or die: some reflections on the mythical decline of the extended family

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Generational Study ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Statistical Trends

Belief that the extended family is in terminal decline has proved to be a remarkably persistent myth. It is currently being revived as a result of recent statistical trends. The belief has been closely connected to sociological enquiries undertaken over the course of the century. The validity of the belief, and in particular the significance of grandparents within the extended family, is explored in two sets of life story interviews recently undertaken with adults in Britain; one set are people in their thirties who had become step-children, and the second set participants in a multi-generational study of social mobility. The analysis addresses questions of contact after parental loss, sources of support within the family, the involvement of grandparents, the importance of co-residence, conflict, emotional closeness and communication within a family.

Approaching life story interviews as sites of interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Stig-Börje Asplund ◽  
Héctor Pérez Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Story Interviews

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what conversation analysis has to offer when analysing a series of life story interviews aiming to capture how reading and texts are used in a rural working-class man’s identity construction. Design/methodology/approach The conversation analysis methodology with its explicit focus on embodied social action, activity and conduct in interaction is integrated with a life story approach when analysing and describing the identity constructing processes that take place in life story interview settings. Findings Through a close and detailed analysis of the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, and by focusing and highlighting the phenomena and identities that are oriented to in the face-to-face interaction here and now (and in relation to there and then), descriptions of the complex and dynamic identity constructing processes that are set into play in the life story interview are possible. Research limitations/implications It is argued that the approach has a lot to offer when approaching life story data, and thus is a method that can increase the transparency in life story interview research. Originality/value The paper explores the intersection of what is often seen as diametrically opposed forms of analysis: conversation analysis and narrative inquiry.

Conceptualization of the Premature School Exit Phenomenon in Mashonaland Region of Zimbabwe: The Voice of Early School Leavers

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 228-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roswitta Gatsi ◽  
Margaret Funke Omidire ◽  
Salome Human-Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Life Story ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
School Life ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Early School ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Collection Strategies ◽  
Professional Counselling

School dropout is a major cause of attrition in schools globally, and its implications could be far-reaching. Evidence from previous studies has shown that the voice of those who have lived experiences of the phenomenon is missing. The present study investigated early school leavers’ conceptualization of school dropout from a Zimbabwean perspective. Twenty-two early school leavers from three sites in Zimbabwe participated in the study. The data collection strategies included focus group discussions, interviews, and life-story narratives. The findings indicated the need for an expanded definition of school dropout that goes beyond physical withdrawal from school. School dropout was understood as a traumatic personal experience, with psychological implications. It entailed deprivation of a meaningful future, retrieval of painful memories of school life, and a reflection of unresolved inequity in the education system. School policies and practices in the Zimbabwean education system should, thus, be sensitive to equity needs and provide professional counselling support to those affected and their families. Furthermore, skilled and emotionally stable personnel should be responsible for the country’s education system and economy.

Performing heterosexual attraction in a bisexual interview: A methodological account of gendered power

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 136346071986180
Author(s):  
Ráhel Katalin Turai
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Men I ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Heterosexual Attraction ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

The article describes the specific gender and sexuality relations that emerged in a life story interview I conducted with a gay-identified man who desires both women and men. I provide a detailed description not only of the eroticization he performed in the interview, but also of my reactions: I felt vulnerable, attractive, attracted, and repulsed. My reflexive analysis frames these reactions in the context of the power dynamics between us, as well as in the context of his narrated experiences with women (including solidarity, desire, abuse and economic interests) – some of which my analysis would not have revealed without taking our interaction into account. I thus argue for the importance of processes of embodied learning, and specifically, for the theoretical significance of the bisexual gendered dynamics between researcher and respondent. Further, my account illuminates the ambiguity of bonding between queer women and men. I argue that owing to the theoretical productivity of the researcher’s reflexivity, the transactional erotic aspects of our own subjectivity are telling of the very meanings (of sex, gender, sexuality and other categories) we aim to interrogate.

Authenticity in cultural built heritage: learning from Chinese Indonesians’ houses

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Asmarani Februandari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Interview Participant ◽  
Inclusive Society

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore authenticity conception of cultural built heritage. As a core of heritage management, authenticity is often seen as a validation of certain identity. In the cultural built heritage context, authenticity is vital for the community, particularly the ethnic minority community, because it can be viewed as a tool to tackle discrimination and misrecognition issues. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted in two Indonesian Chinatowns, namely, Lasem and Semarang Chinatowns. An ethnography method was employed to address the research aim. Four techniques to carry out data collection were used in this research; they were life story interview, participant observation, documentary research and physical observation through house tour. Two theories were used to analyse the data, and they were Technologies of the Self from Foucault and Habitus from Bourdieu. Findings Result shows that authenticity conception in cultural built heritage is not fixed because it lies on the immaterial aspect (the community’s cultural values) that is continuously reinvented. This research also reveals that the immaterial aspect of cultural built heritage, the community’s cultural values, becomes the core of the conception of authenticity. These cultural values become the foundation for the community to create their cultural built environment. Social implications This research brings an important perspective on authenticity to be applied in heritage management. Interestingly, by adopting this perspective, heritage management could become a tool to create an inclusive society. Originality/value This research offers a unique perspective on heritage authenticity, which was constructed through sociological and materiality approach.

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