forward: new book on narrative

[Mary Bucholtz]

I'm forwarding the following blurb on a book that may be of interest to
many on the list:
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Teachers College Press announces the publication of a new book by
Stanton Wortham

"Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis"

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
systematicaccount 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.

Foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen