UNIT 7
ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE INQUIRY
ASK QUESTIONS THAT PAY ATTENTION TO
BASIC ELEMENTS OF QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
MISHLER’S MODELS OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
WAYS OF HELPING PEOPLE TELL STORIES
Begin from a 'not knowing' position rather than 'expert' position
Historical Positioning
Invite other characters in
Capture temporal nature of story
Turning Point
Meaning making
Tell me about the time when ... rather than tell me about your experience of ...
Who were you with?
What happened then ...?
When did you realise that it couldn't go on?
What kind of sense did you make all of that?
Codes
Patterns
Categories
Themes
Identifying concepts from raw data through multiple coding processes
Linking codes to create a unit or a category
Creating a theme that represents similar patterns
Identifying repeated units (a pattern) from categories
Category 1: References and temporal order: The "telling" and the "told".
Category 3: Narrative function: Context and consequences
Recapitulating the told in the telling
Reconstructing the the told from the telling
Imposing a told on the telling
Making a telling from the told
Category 2: Textual coherence and structure: narrative strategies
Textual poetics:
Narrativization of experience:
Narrative and culture:
Storytelling in interactional and institutional contexts
The politics of narrative:
(Labov' model)
Discourse linguistic:
(Reordering a storyline)
(Identifying a story pattern)
(inferring a story)
figuration, tropes and style
Oral narratives
Cognition, memory, self
Myths, rituals, performance
Power, conflict, and resistance
How long did that go on?
Cultural context
How did you know that?
Why do you think that happened?
What did you think about that?
Was that something that you usually did?
Was that OK with you?
Beginning, middle, & ending of a story
What happened after that?
Significant of other people
Who else know about it?
Historical continuity
What year was that?
Embodied nature
How did you cope with that?
Choices/Actions of the teller
When did you decide that?