Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph builds upon our cumulative efforts to investigate personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in two disparate cultural worlds. Drawing upon interdisciplinary fields of study that take a discourse-centered approach to socialization, we combined ethnography, longitudinal home observations, and micro-level analysis of everyday talk to study this problem in Taiwanese families in Taipei and European-American families in Longwood, Chicago. Comparative analyses of 192 hours, of video-recorded observations revealed that convserational stories of young children''s past experiences occurred in both sites at remarkably similar rates and continued apace across the age span, yielding nearly 900 narrations. Thse and other similarities coexisted with differences in culturall salient interpretive frameworks and participant roles, forming distinct socializating pathways. The Taipei families enacted a didactic framework, prolifically and elaborately narrating and correcting childr
Table of ContentsAbstract
I. Introduction
II. Studying Personal Storytelling in Taipei and Longwood
III. Interpretive Frameworks in Routine Practices
IV. Participant Roles
V. Children Navigating Stories
VI. Discussion
References
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Statement of Editorial Policy
Subject Index
