The analysis of narratives

Examines the use of narratives in speech and in research analysis. Beginning with a look at the range of ways narratives might be analysed such as linguistic, structural and thematic. Attention is then turned to some of the functions of narrative. This was a lecture given to postgraduate (graduate) students at the University of Huddersfield as part of a course on Qualitative Data Analysis.
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Works referred to in the video include:
Bury, M (2001) “Illness narratives: Fact or Fiction” Sociology of Health and Illness 23: 263-85
Cortazzi, M (1993) Narrative Analysis. London: Falmer Press.
Denzin, N.K. (1989) Interpretive biography. Newbury Park, Calif., London: Sage.
Labov, W. (1972) 'The transformation of experience in narrative syntax', in W. Labov (ed), Language in the inner city: Studies in the Black English vernacular. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 354-396.
Lieblich, A., Tuval-Mashiach, R. and Zilber, T. (1998) Narrative Research: Reading, Analysis and Interpretation. London: Sage.
Mishler, E.G. (1986) Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative, Cambridge Mass.: Havard University Press
Rhodes, C., and Brown, A.D. (2005) “Narrative, Organizations and Research”, International Journal of Management Research, 5: 167-88.
Riessman, C.K. (1993) Narrative Analysis. Newbury Park, CA, London: Sage.
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[@marinagee3326]

I cannot thank you enough for this video!! This was not well explained in my Qualitative Analysis class, and I've been desperately searching for a clearer and comprehensive explanation. You are an incredibly talented and dedicated instructor, thank you immensely for sharing this!!!

[@ChristopherFontes]

Thanks Professor, for letting people learn. Cheers, from across the pond.

[@Njubish]

Student of Norwegian University of Science and Technology here, this was great. Thanks.

[@SorchaSea]

Thank you for sharing this, Graham. I plan to take a narrative inquiry approach in my PhD research and your video helped to explain areas that were previously unclear for me. Cheers!

[@nataliedonata]

Claire P hi. I haven't watched through the whole video, but have you found that narrative analysis differs greatly from narrative inquiry. This is an area I'm also dabbling into. Hope your phd is going well

[@amurphysharp6118]

Claire Phipps the truth! Very helpful. I too am using the narrative inquiry for my Ph.D dissertation. So ready to be finished with this dissertation

[@robertsharples9822]

thanks very much Graham. once again, very clear and easy to follow. Really helpful for my essay on discourse analysis

[@carmel7848]

I am planning to use Lieblich to analyse narrative, for part of my PhD thesis. This video has been really helpful - very clear and well structured. Thank you. So glad I found your videos.

[@JP-vc5ze]

Thank you Graham - I really needed to see this!

[@luyaoli3294]

Thank you so much indeed, Graham, this is a very useful and clear video!

[@armanmtwo]

thank you again, great clarification with useful details

[@nooralmawali2691]

Thank you Graham. very very helpful

[@TLspoon]

A lot of useful information here. Thanks

[@rubym3808]

Great lecture. Thank you!

[@ttbliss1]

This is an excellent video

[@jazmynk1518]

Great video!

[@Bilalphilosophia]

Thank you sir for this lecture.

[@amalqassim54]

Thanks, that was very useful.

[@hersonpuman8955]

I participated in a short introduction to Narrative Therapy and became really inspired by the idea that life can be explained in terms of a person being a collection of interweaving stories. I have formed a more philosophical interest in the idea rather than it's use in a therapeutic way. Has anyone any pointers towards reading material that explores the more philosophical areas of these ideas? Thanks.

[@rogercarles1700]

I'd recommend maps of meaning from Peterson as he clearly contraposes the idea of two ways of approaching reality, as a "world of objects" (hard science, non-narrative) and as a "forum of action" or in a realist and pragmatic way which I would say are the two fundamental philosophical-ontological traditions clashing today, a modern amd a postmodern one batreling for concepts such us truth-perception-representation-proof-signification... Working on this atm for a book on Sustainability Science

[@usandabekebu2954]

Master's candidate from South Africa. Prior to watching your video I lacked academic terminologies. I'm writing a thesis proposal at the moment and focusing on self narrative. Particularly, the narratives nature related trauma's such as hurricane's etc. Thank you for this video it has been super informative. Anyone in the comment section with such experience please do hit me up. I could use all the help I can get at this point.

[@nat-moody]

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[@lorenaenciso5518]

Dr. Graham you mentioned two authors of Educational narrative. Could you please write their whole names? Interesting lecture. Thanks

[@GrahamRGibbs]

There is a bibliography in info section above. Click on "SHOW MORE".

[@amryservan9543]

hello sir, can I use these approaches in stylistics analysis? hoping for anyone's response. :)

[@architaanand3136]

can a narrative approach be used to explain the nuclearization of a country?

[@anikab-b1881]

I am new to discourse analysis, struggling a lot with the analysis. My project taken a diary narrative approach. I have no clue of how to go about analysing the data.

[@GrahamRGibbs]

I assume you meant to ask the question 'How do I analyze my data?". In the video I suggest a range of different approaches. I suggest you pick one approach to begin with. Pick one that seems to be useful to you - it addresses your research question or it provides some interesting interpretations of the data - or it is easy to see how to do it. An analysis of narratives does not have to be discursive, but it can be. In that case you would focus on the way language is used or how the story is told. But if you are more interested in the content that your respondents recorded in their diaries then a simple thematic analysis might work.

[@vinitashukla9346]

Can Narrative Analysis be done on songs..If yes, then how?? Please reply...I need to know it really badd

[@edmundsedmunds]

well it is 2022 and still 'Norman Denison' 6:25 stands tall for Denzin

[@ilterrorismoinbreve8717]

This is a really interesting lecture, but it also offers some interesting insights into how to organise KZbin educational videos. Interesting how you included academic referencing within the video and in description, so giving viewers an option for deeper study. I'd only suggests a bit more updated graphic design and to make slides available :)

[@chriscockrell9495]

narrative - How they "make sense" of experience. generally. story - protagonist, events, complications, consequences. has elements. history. linguistic, structural and thematic

[@virgilventura8138]

I strongly differ from the observation that "narratives are temporal". In actuality, it is not the narrative that is temporal but the stories that comprise a narrative that is temporal. Unlike a story, a narrative is evolving and does not have a structure the way a story does that is with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

[@ivorydungeon909]

How can a narrative evolve without time?

[@virgilventura8138]

@@ivorydungeon909Figure that out yourself.