Twice-told-tales

small story analysis and the process of identity formation

Michael Bamberg

pp. 183-204

in: Toshio Sugiman, Kenneth J. Gergen, Wolfgang Wagner, Yoko Yamada (eds), Meaning in action, Berlin, Springer, 2008

Abstract

Let me start by laying out some assumptions — though they may be a bit oversimplified — about narrative analysis and qualitative methods. My aim is to orient the reader of this chapter toward options, that is, choices that we have when engaging in qualitative inquiry and in doing narrative analysis as a particular kind of qualitative method.