Die vorliegende Monographie meiner Dissertation ist dank der Unterstützung vieler Menschen entstanden. Einige standen mir während des gesamten Prozesses zur Seite und andere sprangen mir in situativ aufkommenden Herausforderungen tatkräftig zur Seite. Ihnen allen danke ich herzlich für ihr Engagement und ihr Mitwirken: So gilt mein Dank meiner Erstbetreuerin Frau Prof. Dr. Helga Kottho…
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalytic feminist, Sproles considers a wide array of examples from literature, popular cu…
"With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book a…
In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conv…