Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series)

Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series) by Wortham, Stanton. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780807740750.

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: 1);A plausible and systematic account of how narrative self-construction works. 2);A dialogic account of self-construction that focuses on the social, cultural, and relational contexts of storytelling. 3);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.