Small Stories Research: Tales, Tellings, and Tellers Across Contexts

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on small stories and its reach beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives. It emphasizes the analytical aspects of the paradigm toward producing models for the analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and genres of small stories, and chapters on the role and commodification of small stories in digital environments reflect on the paradigms recent extension to the analysis of social media communication.

Format: Hardback
Length: 318 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This collection showcases the remarkable diversity and interdisciplinary scope of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship on this captivating form of storytelling and its far-reaching implications beyond discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives. The volume serves as both a comprehensive review and an ambitious endeavor to advance the development of small stories research, offering a refreshing counterpoint to conventional models in narrative studies. These models have traditionally accounted for atypical yet significant activities in everyday life, such as fragmentation and open-endedness, anchoring onto the present, and the co-constructive dimensions in stories and identities. By drawing on data from diverse languages and contexts, the book emphasizes the analytical aspects of the paradigm in order to generate models for the comprehensive analysis of structures, textual and interactional choices, and genres of small stories.

Chapters dedicated to the role and commodification of small stories in digital environments shed light on the recent extension of this paradigm to the analysis of social media communication. This book will captivate scholars with an interest in narrative inquiry and narrative analysis, spanning various fields such as sociolinguistics, literary studies, communication studies, and biographical studies. Its insights and methodologies will undoubtedly enrich our understanding of the complexities and significance of small stories in our lives and societies.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032182445