Oral versions of personal experience : three decades of narrative analysis

TLDR: In this article, the authors present a collection of short stories from four-year-old children with a focus on the structure and function of everyday narratives, including a short story about a cholera epidemic.

Abstract: Volume 7, Numbers 1-4, 1997. Contents: M.G.W. Bamberg, Introductory Note. W. Labov, J. Waletzky, Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience. G. Prince, Narratology and Narratological Analysis. C. Bernstein, Labov and Waletzky in Context. J. Tolliver, From Labov and Waletzky to "Contextualist Narratology": 1967-1997. J. Bruner, Labov and Waletzky, Thirty Years On. E.G. Mishler, A Matter of Time: When, Since, After Labov and Waletzky. P.J. Hopper, Dualisms in the Study of Narrative: A Note on Labov and Waletzky. E. Ochs, L. Capps, Narrative Authenticity. J. Holmes, Struggling Beyond Labov and Waletzky. E.A. Schegloff, "Narrative Analysis" Thirty Years Later. M.H. Goodwin, Toward Families of Stories in Context. A. Kuntay, S. Ervin-Tripp, Narrative Structure and Conversational Circumstances. U.M. Quasthoff, Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives. D. Schiffrin, Stories in Answers to Questions in Research Interviews. D. Edwards, Structure and Function in the Analysis of Everyday Narratives. D. Keller-Cohen, J. Dyer, Intertextuality and the Narrative of Personal Experience. C.K. Riessman, A Short Story About Long Stories. S. Fleischman, The "Labovian Model" Revisited With Special Consideration of Literary Narrative. M. Freeman, Why Narrative? Hermeneutics, Historical Understanding, and the Significance of Stories. C.L. Briggs, Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic. C.B. Cazden, Speakers, Listeners, and Speech Events in Issues of Universality. J.P Gee, Thematized Echoes. C.E. Snow, A. Imbens-Bailey, Beyond Labov and Waletzky: The Antecedents of Narrative Discourse. C. Daiute, K. Nelson, Making Sense of the Sense-Making Function of Narrative Evaluation. J.B. Gleason, G. Melzi, The Mutual Construction of Narrative by Mothers and Children: Cross-Cultural Observations. E. Hoff-Ginsberg, Frog Stories From Four-Year-Olds: Individual Differences in the Expression of Referential and Evaluative Content. S. Engel, How to Read the Work of Child Authors: A Tribute to Labov and Waletzky. R.A. Berman, Narrative Theory and Narrative Development: The Labovian Impact. B. Wiemer, Narrative Units and the Temporal Organization of Ordinary Discourse. C. Peterson, A. McCabe, Extending Labov and Waletzky. H.K. Ulatowska, G.S. Olness, Some Observations on Narratives by Aphasics and Their Contributions to Narrative Theory. A.R. Bower, the Role of Narrative in the Study of Language and Aging. W.U. Dressler, H.K. Stark, Micro-Units and Macro-Units in Text Theory and in Investigation of Left- and Right-Brain-Damaged Patients. C. Linde, Narrative: Experience, Memory, Folklore. J. Cook-Gumperz, J.J. Gumperz, Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews. J.R. Martin, G. Plum, Construing Experience: Some Story Genres. M. Shiro, Labov's Model of Narrative Analysis as an Emerging Study in Discourse. B. Johnstone, Social Characteristics and Self-Expression in Narrative. S. Ehrlich, Literary Texts and the Violation of Narrative Norms. R. Harre, "He Lived to Tell the Tale." M.G.W. Bamberg, Positioning Between Structure and Performance. A. Imbens-Bailey, When Sentences Are Not Enough: Narrative Data and Cultural Identity. R. Ely, Everything Including Talk and Why You Hafta Listen. I.E. Josephs, Talking With the Dead: Self-Construction as Dialogue. A. Nicolopoulou, Labov's Legacy for Narrative Research--and Its Ironies. M.B. Tappan, Analyzing Stories of Moral Experience: Narrative, Voice, and the Dialogical Self. H.J.M. Hermans, Dialogue Shakes Narrative: From Temporal Storyline to Spatial Juxtaposition. W. Labov, Some Further Steps in Narrative Analysis.