The past is a foreign country: disputed memories and telling rights in co-narrated refugee stories
| Autor: | Andrew Tanner, Lesley Stirling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Recall Communication Refugee media_common.quotation_subject Media studies Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics Dispute resolution Philosophy Negotiation 0602 languages and literature Foreign country Narrative Time distance Sociology Storytelling media_common |
| Zdroj: | Text & Talk. 37:759-787 |
| ISSN: | 1860-7349 1860-7330 |
| Popis: | Memory and time are the two fundamental components of personal experience narrative. For a sole narrator with no competing claims for reliability, time distance from the narrated events is more or less irrelevant, and storytelling can proceed smoothly. However, what happens when more than one participant seems to have an equal claim to telling rights? We report a detailed micro-analysis of co-narrated stories of two brothers’ experiences as refugees over 35 years ago to understand how rights are negotiated when both participants have an apparently equal claim to narrative reliability. Our analysis demonstrates that while under normal circumstances the two speakers perform in “duet” – whereby they take the floor in fluid turns – when discrepancies are detected by either party, a round of negotiation following a predictable pattern is triggered before the narrative can continue. The “winner” of the negotiation – typically the speaker with the greatest recall of chronological detail – claims the rights to tell the story solo. The ability to convincingly demonstrate the reliability of one’s memories is therefore a crucial determinant in who can claim telling rights – the authority to be able to tell a story. Our findings support the role of remembered detail in underpinning this authority. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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