Private stories in public discourse

Abstract This paper demonstrates the use of narrative in the construction of individual, group, and national life stories, and considers the role of such life stories in the wider context of both academic discourse and general public discourse. Any life story is both a construction and a claim of identity. As part of any narrative, speakers express the type of person they are to be taken to be, or the nature of the group in which they claim membership. Linguistic analysis of the narratives which form part of a life story can serve to explicate the facts, the values, and the underlying conceptual model which constitute such identity claims. Each of these levels can be studied using the linguistic markers which characterize them. These levels can be used in a different way by the various social sciences, providing evidence of how people construe events and their meanings.

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