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narrative analysis

Sparkes, 2005

narrative and life story/ narrative turn and subjectivity

People structure experience thru stories and a person is a storytelling animal

The potential for narrative studies to explore the links between identities and culture

narrative practice, they advocate a reflexive analytic approach that enables us to focus alternately on the whats and the constitutive hows of social life

Thus, questions about why a story is told in certain ways (the hows) are asked in relation to questions about its plot and content (the whats), as these are equally important in understanding how meaningful interaction transpires.

Analysis of structure and form/ WHATS

Analysis of content WHATS

Analysis of how the narrative operates and is performed/ HOWS

Content analysis: the original story is dissected, and sections or single words belonging to a defining category are collected from an entire story or from several texts belonging to a number of narrators’

qualitative analysis is as much about how things are said as about what is said.