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[Review] Matthew T. Prior (2016) Emotion and discourse in L2 narrative research

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:59 authored by Simon WilliamsSimon Williams
In contrast to the mass movement of migrants shown in the media, Prior’s study gives a glimpse into the emic detail of migrant lives when their journey is over. Much of the book is devoted to a self-reflexive discourse analysis of extracts from a series of interviews with East Asian refugees, focusing on contributions seen as problematic. First, though, Prior resolves to remedy the absence of reflexivity in traditional conversation analysis and disclose his own emotional history in the context of his professional biography. He describes how an earlier empirical investigation into migrants’ language learning experiences had included research interviews in which the participants persistently told stories about themselves, producing the data that are recycled here. It is the author’s biographical narrative, followed by the interview excerpts, and similar extracts from transcriptions in the literature, that is among the most readable sections of the book.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Discourse & Society

ISSN

0957-9265

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

3

Volume

29

Page range

350-352

Department affiliated with

  • English Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-11-11

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-03-31

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-11-11

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