Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence

by Charlotte Linde

Overview

This sociological study explores how people create and exchange coherent life stories, and looks at the psychological and social purposes behind them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190281878
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1993
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	390 KB

About the Author

Institute for Research on Learning

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent example of interdisciplinary theory and research, and a lucid introduction to the study of narrative. Linde bridges the neglected gap between rhetoric and the psychology of narrative. Really delightful."—Andrew Garrison, Miami University

"Looks extremely interesting....Offers the opportunity to bridge some significant gaps in our understanding of how our self schemas really function."—Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, Allegheny College

"I have read Life Stories with much pleasure and enlightenment. It is a work that combines impressive scholarship in several academic disciplines, and an insightful perspective on popular culture. It will make a substantial contribution to several fields: linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, psychology, anthropology, and sociology—and no doubt others as well."—Robin Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley

"Charlotte Linde's book provides a useful exploration of life stories' structure and their implications for larger issues."—Anthropological Linguistics

"Linde's provocative work will stimulate sociologists to rethink how sociological analyses can benefit from the contributions of its cousin sociolinguistics and visa versa."—American Journal of Sociology

"Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into the way we use stories to create and maintain an identity over time. ...the book contains much that will interest a wide variety of readers, from linguists, narratologists, and literary theorists, to sudents of autobiography and folklore. An imaginative, stylishly written and boldly interdisciplinary study, Life Stories focuses our attention on a hitherto unexplored mode of narrative discourse, throwing new light on the interconnections between self and story."—Style

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